Recording and visualizing the pandemic in Brazil

report and self-reflection on the production of a timeline about Covid-19 in the country

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https://doi.org/10.21680/2447-0198.2022v6n0ID27317

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Timeline Covid-19, Covid-19, Infodemy, Visualization, Digital Tools

Abstract

This article reports the process of developing and implementing a timeline visualization of informational records about the pandemic of the new coronavirus in Brazil, the Timeline Covid-19. With the goal of preserving informational records in the form of news conveyed by media and journalistic outlets on the Internet, and to make information retrieval more accessible, we intend to contribute to the safeguarding of the memory about Covid-19 in the Brazilian context and its respective journalistic memory. The method employed deals with a manual collection of daily news coverage and whose curation sought to pay attention to both the diversity and provenance of the information, as well as its veracity. The production of data was followed by the entry of the same in a spreadsheet that allowed its chronological visualization and the recovery of its content. As of the acceptance date of this article, a little more than four thousand news items are already referenced in the spreadsheet, which was supported by members of the Laboratório em Rede de Humanidades Digitais (Larhud). Attending some principles of the "action-research" methodology, a practice commonly used in several Larhud’s projects, it also followed a previous exploratory analysis of the timeline content with the help of the semantic analysis tool IRaMuTeQ. Following conceptual aspects of Information Science applied to the fields of Visualization and Digital Humanities, we conclude this research report with the indication of a computational improvement to be employed in the parameters of the collection process and with the recognition of the relevance of Timeline Covid-19 for the production of humanistic and informational scientific knowledge about the pandemic of the new coronavirus.

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Author Biographies

Tainá Regly, IBICT/UFRJ

Doctoral student in Information Science in the Postgraduate Program in Information Science at IBICT/UFRJ and Master in the same program (2021). Graduated in Library Science and Documentation at UFF (2018). She is currently a Research Assistant at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and, among others, works in the research groups BRIET-Library, Representation, Interoperability, E-science and Technology and LEI-Laboratory of Informational Ecosystems. She is interested in the areas of Data Visualization, Representation and Organization of Information and Knowledge, Design UX, Information Architecture and Research Data.

Priscila Ramos Carvalho, IBICT/UFRJ

Doctoral Student in Information Science at PPGCI at IBICT/ECO - UFRJ (since 2020). Master in Information Science from PPGCI IBICT/ECO - UFRJ (2020). Specialist in Business Management from FGV/RJ (2008) and in Marketing from ESPM/SP (2004). Graduated in Information System from UNESA/RJ (2019) and in Social Communication from UCSAL/BA (2003). Member of LARHUD (Digital Humanities Network Laboratory), and of the research groups Perfil-i (Philosophical Perspectives on Information) and Information, Memory and Society. Current research: effects of algorithms and big data on new models of capital configuration (platform capitalism) and information regime; digital governance and policy; data management (FAIR) and access to information; and Open Science practices in the Digital Humanities.

Ricardo Medeiros Pimenta, IBICT

Young Scientist do Nosso Estado FAPERJ (2018 - 2020). Titular Researcher of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC). Permanent Professor of the Graduate Program in Information Science (PPGCI / IBICT-UFRJ). Graduated historian (2003) from Universidade Gama Filho - UGF with post-graduation in História do Brasil (2005) from Universidade Cândido Mendes - UCAM. Possui taught in Social Memory and Document (2006) by the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO, and documented in Social Memory (2010) by the same institution, as a dutoral stage (2007 - 2008) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS from Paris. He is the leader of the Memory and Information Society Research Group (http://www.meso.ibict.br), registered in the CNPq directory and coordinator of the IBICT Digital Humanities Network (Larhud / COEPE / IBICT). Currently he is Associate Editor (Latin America and Africa) of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC, former History and Computing). He is also coordinator of the GoFAIR Humanities network.

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Published

22-03-2022

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REGLY, Tainá; CARVALHO, Priscila Ramos; PIMENTA, Ricardo Medeiros. Recording and visualizing the pandemic in Brazil: report and self-reflection on the production of a timeline about Covid-19 in the country. Revista Informação na Sociedade Contemporânea, Natal, v. 6, n. 1, p. e27317, 2022. DOI: 10.21680/2447-0198.2022v6n0ID27317. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/informacao/article/view/27317. Acesso em: 23 sep. 2026.

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