GLAM/Newsletter/February 2024/Contents/Brazil report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue II, February 2024

Brazil report

News from Rio de Janeiro

Every year, the lovers of Brazilian national music receive three or four gifts sent from the city of Rio de Janeiro: batches with hundreds of music sheets of Brazilian composers that are digitized, revised and shared by the Musica Brasilis project.

In January, Musica Brasilis shared more 1,777 music sheets by 163 composers from 14 Brazilian states. Among them are Alberto Nepomuceno from Ceará, Antonio Carlos Gomes from the state of São Paulo and Chiquinha Gonzaga from the state of Rio de Janeiro, whose waltz entitled "Lua branca" (White moon) was performed by many singers, including the great Bahian singer Maria Bethânia.

Since July 2020, when this partnership has begun, Musica Brasilis shared 4,229 files on-Wiki. See some of the composers of its collection are:

Aurélio Cavalcanti
Cacilda Borges Barbosa
Chiquinha Gonzaga
Luiza Leonardo Boccanera
Noel Rosa

See the Musica Brasilis' GLAM page and the uploaded media.

TWO NEW PARTNERS IN RIO DE JANEIRO

Museu da Umbanda is a virtual project from the city of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is an institution that aims to disseminate the history of Umbanda, a Brazilian religion, as long as the first Umbanda center was announced in 1908, by the entity Caboclo das Sete Encruzilhadas, in that city.

Carnavalize is a project from Rio de Janeiro city that register images of Carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, including images of the preparations and of people: highlights on the floats, players, members of the communities and workers behind the scenes building each plot and ensemble.

NEW UPLOAD FROM NEUROMAT

Situated inside the University of São Paulo, the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (CEPID Neuromat) was founded in 2013 and, since July 2014, it has put among its objectives the propagation of scientific knowledge by open educational resources, namely Wikimedia Foundation initiatives. Beside the synthesis of mathematical modelling and theoretical neuroscience, researchers at RIDC NeuroMat have uploaded images to Wikimedia Commons, added spoken articles about mathematics, created and improved pages about neuroscience, statistics and theory of probabilities.

Since August, CEPID Neuromat uploaded 453 new media. See below one of the 4,228 media shared along this partnership: a speech about "The brain as a computer", by Jorge Stolfi.

See the CEPID NeuroMat's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

NEW HUGE UPLOAD FROM INMA

Especially for people who love plants and for Biologists!

The Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA) made available its collection from the system Reflora and we uploaded 7,000 images that are part of the Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão (MBML) Herbarium collection.

INMA is our partner since 2022, when we held the Wiki Loves Espírito Santo. And now we are harvesting the fruits (leaves, flowers, roots and all other plant parts) of this partnership.

See the INMA's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

NEW UPLOAD FROM CMU

Antonio Luiz Dias de Andrade, better known as Janjão, was an architect who was very active in the field of historical heritage in the state of São Paulo, and was even the director of the regional unit of Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artistico Nacional (IPHAN) between 1978 and 1994.

The collection made available on Wiki by Centro de Memória Unicamp (CMU) was donated by Janjão's son, historian Dr. Francisco de Carvalho Dias de Andrade, in 2010. It consists of 1,729 media files, mostly photographs of Brazilian locations. But it also includes some of the wonderful drawings for which Janjão is known among colleagues in the field.

How about helping to identify the Brazilian cities documented in this wonderful collection?