The Encyclopedia of Anthropology will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025! This date calls for celebrations, but above all for assessments and reflections on the work carried out in order to plan future projects.
In this sense, we invite the public to the roundtable "Digital encyclopedias in action: crafts, technologies, collaborations", organized in partnership with the Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies at USP.
The event will bring together scientific dissemination projects for an exchange of experiences on the production of digital encyclopedias, considering the challenges of collaborative management, editing and writing. In addition to EA, we will talk about the encyclopedias Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, from the Socioenvironmental Institute, and Bérose - encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie; and also about workshops on creating and editing Wikipedia entries, which have been held at the university, promoted by Wikimedia Brasil.
The panel will feature the participation of Fernanda A. Peixoto (EA/Bérose), André S. Bailão (EA), Carolina Parreiras (LETEC/USP), Tatiane M. Klein (PIB/ISA) and Isabela Tosta (Labjor/Unicamp), as well as members of the editorial committees. We will discuss the potential and limitations of the “encyclopedia” format; the transformations of projects over time and their scope and uses; the production (artisanal and collaborative) of entries and its challenges; and new artificial intelligence technologies.
The event will be in person and open to the public.