Recording and visualizing the pandemic in Brazil: report and self-reflection on the production of a timeline about Covid-19 in the country
This article reports the process of developing and implementing a timeline visualization of informational records about the pandemic of the new coronavirus in Brazil, the Timeline Covid-19. With the goal of preserving informational records in the form of news conveyed by media and journalistic outle...
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| Resumo: | This article reports the process of developing and implementing a timeline visualization of informational records about the pandemic of the new coronavirus in Brazil, the Timeline Covid-19. With the goal of preserving informational records in the form of news conveyed by media and journalistic outlets on the Internet, and to make information retrieval more accessible, we intend to contribute to the safeguarding of the memory about Covid-19 in the Brazilian context and its respective journalistic memory. The method employed deals with a manual collection of daily news coverage and whose curation sought to pay attention to both the diversity and provenance of the information, as well as its veracity. The production of data was followed by the entry of the same in a spreadsheet that allowed its chronological visualization and the recovery of its content. As of the acceptance date of this article, a little more than four thousand news items are already referenced in the spreadsheet, which was supported by members of the Laboratório em Rede de Humanidades Digitais (Larhud). Attending some principles of the "action-research" methodology, a practice commonly used in several Larhud’s projects, it also followed a previous exploratory analysis of the timeline content with the help of the semantic analysis tool IRaMuTeQ. Following conceptual aspects of Information Science applied to the fields of Visualization and Digital Humanities, we conclude this research report with the indication of a computational improvement to be employed in the parameters of the collection process and with the recognition of the relevance of Timeline Covid-19 for the production of humanistic and informational scientific knowledge about the pandemic of the new coronavirus. |
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