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ericbrasiln/README.md

Eric Brasil

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Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Languages, University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (IHLM-UNILAB), Malês campus.

Researcher at the UFBA Digital Humanities Laboratory (LABHDUFBA).

Professor of the Interdisciplinary Master's Degree in Digital Humanities at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGIHD-UFRRJ)

CNPq DTI-A Research Fellow — Project: Ecossistemas multiplataforma e ataques à integridade da informação em saúde (CNPq/Decit/SECTICS/MS No. 30/2024)

Editor of the Programming Historian Pt

Former Visiting Researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab, IHC, NOVA-FCSH (2022–2023)

PhD (2016) and Master (2011) in Social History at Universidade Federal Fluminense. Author of the book A Corte em Festa: experiências negras em carnavais do Rio de Janeiro (1879-1888). Winner of the Silvio Romero Monograph Contest, promoted by the National Center for Folklore and Popular Culture, IPHAN, in 2011 (1st place) and 2020 (2nd place).

Member of Anpuh's Emancipations and Post-Abolition Working Group (Gtep/Anpuh).

Main research areas: Social History of Culture, Humanities and Digital History, Abolition of slavery and Post-Abolition in Brazil and the Caribbean, mainly in the following themes: Carnival, Citizenship, Transnational History, African Diaspora, History of Afro-Americas, Digital History, Digital Newspapers Archives, Digital research methods, programming languages for research in History, web scraping, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applied to Humanities research.

Elementary and high school teacher in Rio de Janeiro between 2007 and 2017.

ericbrasiln

  • 🔭 I'm currently working on digital methods for History projects and LLMs & RAG pipelines applied to Humanities research
  • 👾 I'm currently learning Python 🐍
  • 👯 I'm looking to collaborate on multilingual Digital Humanities projects
  • 💬 Ask me about Digital History in Brazil
  • 📫 How to reach me:
  • 💻 Personal website
  • 🌳 Linktree
  • 🔬 ORCID

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Selected Publications (2020–2026):

Preprint

  • NASCIMENTO, L. F.; BRASIL, E.; et al. Social-RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipeline for Computational Social Science Research on Telegram. 2026.

Journal Articles

  • BRASIL, Eric. Interfaces de hemerotecas digitais em português: análise crítica e desafios para o desenvolvimento de uma nova geração de acervos históricos. MATRAGA, v. 32, p. 325-346, 2025.
  • BRASIL, Eric; SILVEIRA, P. V.; VELOSO, A. C. Desafios e expectativas da prática da história na Era Digital: percepções de docentes de história nas instituições de ensino superior na Bahia. Boletim do Tempo Presente, v. 13, p. 140-171, 2024.
  • SILVEIRA, P. V.; BRASIL, Eric. Métodos e ferramentas digitais na pesquisa em História. TEKOA, v. 2, p. 1-22, 2023.
  • BRASIL, Eric. Git como ferramenta metodológica em projetos de História (parte 1). Programming Historian em português 3, 2023. DOI
  • BRASIL, Eric. pyHDB - Ferramenta Heurística para a Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira. História da Historiografia, v. 15, n. 40, p. 186-217, 2022. DOI
  • BRASIL, Eric; NASCIMENTO, L. F. História Digital: reflexões a partir da Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira e o uso de CAQDAS. Estudos Históricos, v. 33, p. 196-219, 2020. DOI

Book Chapters

  • BRASIL, Eric. Entre a interface de usuário e a produção do conhecimento histórico. In: Memórias digitais. Editora HN, 2024, p. 185-199.
  • BRASIL, Eric; NASCIMENTO, L. F. Por uma História Social Digital. In: História digital. Editora Vozes, 2022, p. 228-252.
  • BRASIL, Eric; NASCIMENTO, L. F. A ferramenta de busca da Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira e o ofício do historiador. In: Caminhos da história digital no Brasil. Editora Milfontes, 2022, p. 209-228.

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Postgraduate Courses:

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  1. pyHDB pyHDB Public

    pyHDB - Ferramenta de auxílio metodológico para pesquisas na interface da Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira da Biblioteca Nacional. Desenvolvida por Eric Brasil (IHLM-UNILAB) como parte de pesquisa aca…

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  2. Anais-Anpuh Anais-Anpuh Public

    Projeto de script para web scraping da pagina de Anais da Anpuh

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  3. ferramentas_scielo_v2 ferramentas_scielo_v2 Public

    Esse repositório é parte dos projetos desenvolvidos pelos membros do LABHDUFBA e tem como objetivo oferecer ferramentas de raspagem, organização e análise de artigos ciêntíficos publicados na plata…

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  4. resumos-anpuh-cli resumos-anpuh-cli Public

    Interface de linha de comando para raspar resumos dos Simpósio Nacionais de História da Anpuh.

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  5. intro-historia-digital intro-historia-digital Public

    Site da disciplina CCLHM0069 - Introdução à História digital.

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