History of property numbering in São Paulo and its database (1870-1940)

• Grant number: 18/11924-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: January 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History
• Principal Investigator: Luis Antonio Coelho Ferla
• Grantee: Eduardo de Souza Goiabeira
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/04846-0 - Paulicéia 2.0: a spatiotemporal platform for digital humanities, AP.ESCIENCE.R

Abstract

The eScience project to which this proposal is linked aims to create a web-based platform for the collaborative mapping of the city of São Paulo between 1870 and 1940, and grants scholarships to undergraduates as part of their introduction to scientific research methods. The eScience project is contributing to the increasing use of geotechnologies within historical research, a trend clearly recognizable over at least the previous decade and a half. This grantee should investigate proper literature and documentation to reconstruct the evolution of the property numbering in São Paulo and its regulation. As part of the project, a database should be built with the properties that have an identified location in time and space through their respective numbers, given the particular space selection performed by the project crew. Based on the inclusion of these properties into the São Paulo's historical base map, new other points should be included in the database, by extrapolation, which will work through the geocoding interface provided by the project. Thus, the research on the history of property numbering in São Paulo is an essential step to build and provide such collaborative platform.