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DATA BASES

DATA BASES

CRITERIA

   1. Definition of information levels – compromise between tipification (key-words indexation) and transcription of integral texts or summaries.
   2. Definition of the main tables: they should reflect the research grid of Hisportos: Geomorphologic conditionalisms/ Seaports interventions/ Central and local policies/ Entities and persons involved.
   3. 3. Definition of key-words: indexing specialized languages, specific to each knowledge area. Technical glossaries of hydraulic engineering and geo-morphological concepts (tables Geomorphologic Phenomena and Technologies)

DATA BASE STRUCTURE

Data base was built in the assumption that all data are supposed to be linked in every field according criteria of interconnectivity.

A. MAIN TABLES

   1. CONDICIONALISMS – Data on geomorphologic, climatic and antropic conditionalisms of seaport interventions.
   2. INTERVENTIONS – Data on all kinds of harbour construction or intervention, namely technical operations linked to polices condicionalisms, geomorphology and human agents.
   3. POLICES – Data on central and/or local polices regarding seaports interventions.
   4. MAPS – Technical description of historic cartography

B. SECONDARY TABLES

   1. GEOMORPHOLOGIC PHENOMENA and TECNOLOGIES. Meta-information: technical glossaries.
   2. PERSONS and ENTITIES. – Biographic and institutional information

C. REFERENCE TABLES

   1. SOURCES
   2. BIBLIOGRAPHY

DATA BASE RESEARCH

Requirements: user identification allows access to a username and password

Research language: Portuguese

Research options:

   1. Queries guided by the main database and fields:

      - INTERVENTIONS
      - CONDITIONALISMS
      - TECHNICIENS
      - TECHNOLOGIES
      - GEOMORPHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA
      - POLICES
      - CARTOGRAPHY

   2. Queries guided by keywords

Potential users:

Historians, geographers, architects, urban specialists, cartographers, engineers, environment specialists, territorial planning specialists, local authorities and tourism agents, as well as common people.