CreoPhonPt: introdução à prática científica na era digital com impacto sobre a preservação dos crioulos

Abstract

CreoPhonPt (Silva & Moran, 2022) is an open-access repository that combines various datasets with phonological, lexical and sociolinguistic information on the creoles of Portuguese. This repository was created as part of a PhD project to facilitate the quantitative analysis of these languages while at the same time making accessible data that was previously closed and/or dispersed. A new branch of the project - CreoPhonPt_ classes - emerged when its founder took over the teaching of Phonology I on the MA in Linguistics at FLUP. This follow- -up project was based on two main immediate objectives: 1. Enrich the existing repository with more data, boosting its use and dissemination; 2. Provide students with the skills to: 2.1. structured collection of scientific data 2.2. rigorous monitoring of research protocols; 2.3. manual and automatic data processing in spreadsheets and Python code; 2.4. linking data and metadata to open networks, standardisation and dissemination. The classes, taught in partnership with researchers from different areas of the digital humanities, became an exciting experience of interdisciplinarity and collaboration, the positive results of which were evident both in the excellent performance of the students and in the ratings given to the UC in the pedagogical surveys.