Sofia Patrocinio

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa | NOVA · Department of Earth Sciences (DCT)

This second migration report highlights some statistics regarding the 10,000 fossil occurrences currently available in the new database version.

In this first project report, we will focus on the data migration process, bringing back some of the old updates' statistics and sharing some new information now available to us in the new system.

The “Portuguese Fossil Database” is a project which aims to compensate for an existing gap in the availability and analysis of the Portuguese paleontological data as a whole. The present abstract shows the preliminary data related with taxonomic diversity, which was acquired after almost two years of work and the analysis of more than 500 peer-revi...

The “Portuguese Fossil Database” is a project which aims to compensate for an existing gap in the availability and analysis of the Portuguese paleontological data as a whole. The present abstract shows the preliminary data related with taxonomic diversity, which was acquired after almost two years of work and the analysis of more than 500 peer-revi...

Knowing what has been previously done before starting a new study is of primary importance when conducting novel scientific research. Portugal has more than two centuries of research in Paleontology; however, this information is currently scattered. The present project aims to compile all fossil occurrences reported in the country by creating an oc...

With more than two centuries of palaeontology research focused on material found in Portugal, and a growing research community dedicated to the subject, the absence of platforms dedicated to gathering, organizing and sharing the published data continues to pose a problem. The Portuguese Fossil Database was created two years ago, in May 2021, as a s...

Before the appearance of the digital tools necessary for online science communication to become the norm, researchers primarily relied upon printed scientific journals to spread science novelties. Older publications are thereby the starting point for any bibliographic search and, therefore, a key element to the Portuguese Fossil Database. Thus we n...

A prospecção e estudo do registo geológico português providencia fósseis há já quase 3 séculos. Dos grandes fémures de dinossauro aos micropólenes, a diversidade de espécies supera quaisquer expectativas que poderíamos ter quando nos propusemos a realizar uma base de dados da Paleontologia Portuguesa em Maio de 2021, mas a informação está dispersa...