RESEARCH

PROJECTS

WSD Roadmap - Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap

Start . 2021

Duration . 36 months

Principal Investigators . Carla Vieira (CHAM) / Paula Ochôa (CHAM) / Daniel Alves (IHC / FCSH/NOVA)

Website: https://projetos.dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/s/wsdroadmap/page/homepage

INSTITUTIONS

Main Institutions

CHAM — Centro de Humanidades
Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais / Instituto de História Contemporânea /Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas/Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Sponsors:

Rothschild Fountation Hanadiv Europe

Cátedra Alberto Benveniste

The Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap (WSD Roadmap) is a project that crosses Digital Humanities and Information Science methods with Jewish Diaspora Studies with the aim of developing a working tool for researchers, archivists and librarians – the WSD Roadmap portal. This portal will be an open-source, user-friendly and responsive web platform with information on documentary materials related to the Western Sephardic Diaspora and its background. Such information will be focused on two categories – archival collections and published primary sources – and organised in two databases uploaded in the portal.

Goals

. Making primary sources on Western Sephardic Diaspora more accessible for researchers, archivists, librarians, and interested public;

. Diagnosing the state of accessibility, cataloguing, and preservation of documentary collections, and identifying the needs for improvements in this respect;

. Optimising resources and sharing data with other related projects and platforms;

. Encouraging future projects, in particular, those crossing different geographies of the Western Sephardic Diaspora, and using Digital Humanities and Information Science methodologies;

. Stimulating the development of Jewish Studies in Portugal.

Team

Carla Vieira (CHAM - NOVA FCSH): Coordinator

Paula Ochôa (CHAM - NOVA FCSH): Co-coordinator

Daniel Alves (Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais, IHC - NOVA FCSH): Co-coordinator

Inês de Sá: Research Fellow

Joana Paulino ( Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais, IHC - NOVA FCSH): Collaborator

Susana Bastos Mateus (CESAB, FLUL; CIDEHUS-UÉ; CEHR-UCP): Collaborator

Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço (CHAM-NOVA FCSH; CEHR-UCP; CESAB, FLUL): Collaborator

Margarida Ramos (Centro de Linguística-NOVA FCSH): Collaborator

Maria Aires Carmo (NOVA FCSH): Collaborator

Callenciane Jung: Collaborator