Machado de Assis's Literary Gazetteer

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2025.e101283

Keywords:

Semantic Web, Machado de Assis, Geo-ontology, Linked Data, Digital Humanities

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to develop a semantic web application that maps geographic locations in the works of Machado de Assis, storing them in a triplestore. By integrating data from the MachadodeAssis.net encyclopedia with geographic coordinates from Geonames.org and GoogleMaps, the project aims to offer a reading experience through interactive maps that support the spatial references made by the writer throughout the 19th century.

Methods: The Python library BeautifulSoup is used for querying and collecting data from the encyclopedia, structuring it according to schema.org parameters. The collected citations are submitted to the gpt3.5-instruct and gpt4-turbo models to obtain the current names of the locations and the proper classification of these spaces according to the Geonames.org ontology. SPARQL queries are performed on the dados.literaturabrasileira.ufsc.br portal to obtain unique identifiers for each book.

Results: The application offers an integration between maps, citations, and full texts, in line with Linked Data standards.

Conclusions: The intersection of technology, literature, and geolocation can offer interesting reading experiences, providing fertile ground for the development of so-called digital humanities.

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Author Biographies

Dilvan de Abreu Moreira, University of São Paulo

PostDoc in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University (2008), Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury (1995), master's degree in Microelectronics from the State University of Campinas (1991), graduation in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (1988). Currently Associate Professor of the University of São Paulo. Acting as AdHoc consultant for FAPESP, CNPq, CAPES and FNR Luxembourg. Member of the IEEE and ACM. Reviewer for Bioinformatics (Oxford). CNPq research productivity funder for 9 years and CNPq and FAPESP research aid fund holder. My research focuses on the application of Web technologies, especially the Semantic Web, on problems in the Biomedical and Bioinformatics area to allow the interpretation of biomedical data by machines. Recently I have collaborated with BMIR-Stanford University with semantic annotation of medical images and with INPA/Embrapa in annotation and semantic search of data on biodiversity. I have more than 20 years of experience in computer research and engineering: distributed client/server and Web applications, including technologies such as Web services, ontologies (Semantic Web OWL) and the languages ​​C, C++, Clojure and Java in Linux, Windows and Mac . Management of research laboratories in the area.

Davi Machado da Rocha, Secretaria Municipal de Educação de São Paulo

Master, bachelor and degree in History from Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP. Professor of the technological support project at EE Dr. Álvaro Guião, in São Carlos - SP.

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2025-03-17

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MOREIRA, Dilvan de Abreu; ROCHA, Davi Machado da. Machado de Assis’s Literary Gazetteer. Encontros Bibli: revista eletrônica de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação, [S. l.], v. 30, p. 1–32, 2025. DOI: 10.5007/1518-2924.2025.e101283. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/101283. Acesso em: 26 mar. 2025.

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