Open Science and Open Data towards open education — Portlingue: a digital humanities research project

In this article, we will present the project PortLinguE — a project financed by European funds (ref. PTDC/LLT-LIG/31113/2017) and developed at the University of Minho. The aim of the project is to use open data to create resources for the scientific community and society in general and to empower the community itself to participate as content and knowledge creators. Three types of resources are being developed: (1) Resources for Specialised Languages: (a) a bilingual search engine (Portuguese- English), that presents a given term in both languages, in comparable texts, which are not the translation of each other; and (b) mappings of knowledge areas in primary, secondary and higher education, through the creation of glossaries and digital visualisations, using open access content, such as school programs, and through the direct collaboration with schools and students, encouraging the creation of learner-generated content and community participation in knowledge construction. (2) Resources for Academic Literacy: a seven-step method which intends to guide students in the preparation of academic assignments, by creating and aggregating of resources that support academic and scientific literacy, divided into seven steps that intend to guide students in the preparation of academic papers. (3) Resources for Science Communication: the dissemination of science is essential in a framework of open science and open education, so the project also focuses on promoting contact between the general population and researchers and scientists, by building sponsorship networks and scientific profiles of researchers.

This work was carried out within the scope of the “PortLinguE” project (PTDC/LLT-LIG/31113/2017) financed by FEDER under Portugal 2020 and by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT,I.P.).