CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

S C I È N C I A . C A T   
 
  • Title: "Sciència.cat. Towards a digital corpus of science and technology in Catalan language
    in the romance context during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
  • Identification key: FFI 2008-02163/FISO
  • Funding entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
  • Duration: 2009-2011
  • Members:

    Lluís Cifuentes (Universitat de Barcelona, main researcher)
    Antònia Carré (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
    Carmel Ferragud (Universitat de València)
    Sebastià Giralt (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    Stefano Rapisarda (Università di Catania)
    Ilaria Zamuner (Università di Chieti)

  • Collaborators:

    • Miquel Hernàndez (technical assistance and databases creation)

    Miquel Raufast (march-july 2009)
    Nin Sauleda (march-july 2009)
    Roger Aluja (sept. 2009-)
    Teresa Huguet (march 2010-)
    Cristina Borau (may 2010-)

  • Location: Departament de Filologia Catalana, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona
  • Objectives:

    1. Implementation of the Databases of Sciència.cat: insertion of data on manuscripts, works, biographies and bibliography into the databases; creation of a database on technical vocabulary.

    2. Implementation of the Digital library of Sciència.cat: on-line publication of new scientific texts and secondary bibliography in open access.

    3. Critical edition of medieval texts: fragmentary Catalan testimonies of several works; two texts on astrological magic (Llibre de puritats and Llibre de ydeis de astrologia); the pseudoaristotelic Epistola ad Alexandrum de dieta servanda in Occitan and Catalan; and the Occitan treatise on astrological geomancy «Aisy es la manyera de far la sentensia de la sort».

    4. Divulgation of research topics through the section Topics of Sciència.cat.

 

 

 

 

Catalan infantry 
in a fresco at the Palau Reial Major  
of Barcelona, late 13th c.  
(Barcelona, MHCB) 

 
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