ROSSIO Infrastructure

ROSSIO is the leading Portuguese infrastructure for cultural heritage in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities service. It is part of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures of Strategic Interest (RNIE) and a member of the pan-European infrastructure DARIAH-EU - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. All NOVA FCSH UIs integrate, contribute to, and benefit from ROSSIO services.

The ROSSIO consortium, led by NOVA FCSH, includes 3 Portuguese universities and 18 public and private entities linked to cultural heritage, one of which is Brazilian. It brings together more than 7 million digital content records from all these institutions, including databases of NOVA FCSH UIs, made available in open access.

Among other services, it offers a simple and advanced research portal that is easily accessible to all, a virtual research environment for collaborative work open to all national and international researchers, a multimedia training room, controlled vocabularies essential for organizing and retrieving information, as well as functionalities for the creation and publication of digital exhibitions and collections, giving greater visibility to Portuguese-speaking cultural heritage and NOVA FCSH's research among the general public, the educational community and the tourism sector.

ROSSIO Infrastructure

In Portuguese, Rossio refers to a wide space where several paths meet. It is a place where people gather to live, discuss, trade, take part in cultural events, and express their civic and political identity. Rossio is a quintessential public space.

In the spirit of Rossio, the ROSSIO infrastructure serves as a hub for convergence and growth. It is a platform where not only researchers, teachers, and students, but also the general population, can easily and intuitively access SSH content. This access opens doors to new knowledge and skills, sparking personal growth and new accomplishments.

This infrastructure contains all IEM publications found in the Nova University Repository (RUN), as well as the institute’s biannual journal, Medievalista.

Access ROSSIO infrastructure here.