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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SeaLiT (Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s.)

Teaser

I do not understand what do you want me to write. Is it about the historical questions of the project? If yes, these are clearly illustrated in the proposal of the project.

Summary

I do not understand what do you want me to write. Is it about the historical questions of the project? If yes, these are clearly illustrated in the proposal of the project.

Work performed

The project since 1.2.2017 has advanced in different stages: research in libraries and archives of Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Ukraine and Russia, from where an enormous amount of unpublished material has been collected. At the same time, the insertion of data is at an advanced stage. A new partner, CCI/ICS/FORTH (https://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/index_main.php?l=e&c=252), is responsible for the development of the database templates, mappings, semantic networks and the creation of the website (http://www.sealitproject.eu/). Already two SeaLiT workshops were successfully organised, a kick off one in Rethymno in October 2017 and another in Barcelona in June 2018.
The dissemination of the project is also advanced through special sessions and papers in international conferences in Ioannina, Heraklion, Paris, Costanza and Boston; an invited Lecture in the Hellenic Studies Program of Yale Macmillan Centre (https://hsp.macmillan.yale.edu/event/seafaring-lives-transition-mediterranean-maritime-history-and-challenge-globalization-1850s); an interview to the New York newspaper National Herald (https://www.ekirikas.com/%ce%bf-%ce%b4%cf%81%ce%b1%cf%80%cf%8c%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%bf%cf%82-%ce%b4%ce%b5%ce%bb%ce%ae%cf%82-%ce%bc%ce%b9%ce%bb%ce%ac-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf%ce%bd-%ce%b5-%ce%ba-%ce%bc%ce%b5/) and another interview to the Odessa local history broadcasting (http://grad.ua/programmy-tv/odisseia/74383-morskaya-istoriya-ot-apostolosa-delisa.html).

Final results

A collaboration with the CCI/ICS/FORTH has begun since summer 2017, which was not in the initial submission of the proposal as well as of the budget, instead there, there was stated the position of an IT technical assistant. This was dictated by the necessity to have the IT assistance for the creation of the databases and of the website of the project. However, this collaboration so far has proved far more valuable, since the CCI team is able to develop the semantic networks dimension and a series of mappings based on the data of the project, which is not only a novelty for a history project, but also a groundbreaking contribution in the issue of instant matching and of interrelated historical information. So far, the CCI managed to create a flexible and adjustable serie of templates for the insertion of data (named Fast Cat) and the project’s website (http://www.sealitproject.eu/).

Website & more info

More info: http://www.sealitproject.eu/.