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ericbrasiln/README.md

Eric Brasil

Historian · Digital Humanities · AI agents for research

Professor at the Institute of Humanities and Languages, UNILAB (Malês campus) Researcher at LABHDUFBA · Faculty at PPGIHD/UFRRJ

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Now

  • AI agents for humanities research — designing LLM agents and Social-RAG pipelines that expand scholarly reading while keeping epistemological control (LABHDUFBA)
  • Multi-platform disinformation ecosystems and attacks on health information integrity — CNPq DTI-A research fellowship (CNPq/Decit/SECTICS/MS nº 30/2024), in partnership with ISC/UFBA
  • OAI-PMH harvesting of Brazilian OJS journalsojs-brazil-harvest

About

PhD (2016) and MA (2011) in Social History (Universidade Federal Fluminense). Author of A Corte em Festa: experiências negras em carnavais do Rio de Janeiro (1879–1888), winner of the Silvio Romero Monograph Contest (IPHAN/CNFCP) in 2011 (1st place) and 2020 (2nd place). Managing Editor of the Programming Historian em português. Former visiting researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab, IHC, NOVA University of Lisbon — FCSH (2022–2023). Member of Anpuh's Emancipations and Post-Abolition Working Group (Gtep/Anpuh).

Research interests

Digital History & Humanities Social History of Culture
Digital heuristics · digital newspaper archives · web scraping · NLP · LLMs, RAG & AI agents · research software Abolition & post-abolition in Brazil and the Caribbean · carnival and Black citizenship · Afro-Atlantic history · transnational history

Selected software

Project Description
pyHDB Heuristic tool for the Brazilian Digital Newspaper Library (Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira)
HemDig(pt) Framework for methods, tools, and digital newspaper archives in Portuguese
social-rag Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline for computational social science on Telegram
ojs-brazil-harvest OAI-PMH metadata collection from Brazilian OJS journals
ferramentas_scielo_v2 Scraping and analysis tools for SciELO.br academic articles
resumos-anpuh-cli CLI for scraping abstracts from Anpuh National Symposia (2013–2021)
Sociedades-Carnavalescas-RJ Searchable database of carnival groups in Rio de Janeiro
REDHBR Digital Humanities Repository (PT-BR)

Selected publications (2020–2026)

Preprint

  • NASCIMENTO, L. F.; BRASIL, E.; et al. Social-RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipeline for Computational Social Science Research on Telegram. 2026.

Journal articles

Book chapters

  • BRASIL, E. Entre a interface de usuário e a produção do conhecimento histórico. In: Memórias digitais. Editora HN, 2024.
  • BRASIL, E.; NASCIMENTO, L. F. Por uma História Social Digital. In: História digital. Editora Vozes, 2022.
  • BRASIL, E.; NASCIMENTO, L. F. A ferramenta de busca da Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira e o ofício do historiador. In: Caminhos da história digital no Brasil. Editora Milfontes, 2022.

Teaching

Undergraduate (UNILAB)

Graduate


Skills

📫 profericbrasil@unilab.edu.br · ericbrasiln@proton.me

Profile README maintained with Hermes Agent · September 2026

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  1. pyHDB pyHDB Public

    pyHDB - Ferramenta de auxílio metodológico para pesquisas na interface da Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira da Biblioteca Nacional. Desenvolvida por Eric Brasil (IHLM-UNILAB) como parte de pesquisa aca…

    Python 13 11

  2. Anais-Anpuh Anais-Anpuh Public

    Projeto de script para web scraping da pagina de Anais da Anpuh

    Python 5 3

  3. ferramentas_scielo_v2 ferramentas_scielo_v2 Public

    Esse repositório é parte dos projetos desenvolvidos pelos membros do LABHDUFBA e tem como objetivo oferecer ferramentas de raspagem, organização e análise de artigos ciêntíficos publicados na plata…

    Python 5 2

  4. resumos-anpuh-cli resumos-anpuh-cli Public

    Interface de linha de comando para raspar resumos dos Simpósio Nacionais de História da Anpuh.

    Python 1 2

  5. intro-historia-digital intro-historia-digital Public

    Site da disciplina CCLHM0069 - Introdução à História digital.

    HTML