The project "romanceiro.pt" is already associated with the portal of the European Association of Digital Humanities. The project, directed by researchers from the University of Algarve (UAlg), «thus gains prominence on the international scene».
«The approval of the application represents the recognition, by a prestigious European institution, of the effort made by the research team to offer, on a daily basis, new tools and new methodologies to researchers working in the field and, at the same time, make available to the general public the access to thousands of resources within the Archive of the Portuguese Novel of the Modern Oral Tradition», says UAlg.
This is a project directed by researchers Pere Ferré, Mirian Tavares and Sandra Boto from the Center for Research in Arts and Communication (CIAC) at UAlg.
The initiative, which in 2013 had already attracted the attention of national institutions, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (which financed the process of digitizing the Romanceiro's documental nuclei) now integrates «the great showcase of European projects in the field of Digital Humanities».
With the availability of this archive on the network, the objective is to «make accessible to both specialists and the general public a set of great cultural value, which houses nearly 14 thousand images of documents of great importance in the context of Portuguese heritage literature».
For the specific Portuguese case, the contributions of the collections and publications of novel versions by Almeida Garrett, Teófilo Braga, Leite de Vasconcellos, Consiglieri Pedroso, Alves Redol, Michel Giacometti, Maria Aliete Galhoz or Manuel Viegas Guerreiro could be mentioned.
This archive feeds, precisely, on the work of collecting and publishing the traditional Portuguese romance novel that these and many others interested in oral tradition literature have taken and continue to carry out in the present.
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