THE GENESIS OF THE BRAZILIAN PHILATELIC REPOSITORY: an interdisciplinary experience in the Digital Humanities

It presents the project in progress entitled "Brazilian Philatelic Repository - REFIBRA". Explains the actions of digital curation carried out by the IMAGO Research Group linked to the Information Science Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco. The project aims to develop a digital repository of the brazilian philatelic documents produced since 1843. The article indicates applications of computational technologies articulated to the interdisciplinarity of the digital humanities. As a methodology, the bibliographical review makes use of some elements proposed in the specialized scientific literature of Library Studies, Information Science, Computing and Philately. It points out the criteria used until now to choose the most efficient and effective computational technology. It illustrates a preliminary proposal of semantic web application for the informational treatment of 32 commemorative postage stamps. It uses the Dublin Core metadata standard, with necessary adaptations, the Linked Data visualization system and the Resource Description Framework. The results obtained and published in this article collaborate with the advancement of the research and are evidence that the field of Digital Humanities articulate its self praising its interdisciplinary facet, but also learning about how a certain level of articulation of computational technologies with informational demands may result in high quality models.