Digital Atlas of Portuguese America

This paper presents the Digital Atlas of Portuguese America (Atlas Digital da América Portuguesa), a project that produces an interactive map of South America claimed by the Portuguese between 1500 and 1808, giving a detailed account on the development and structure of this digital cartographic platform. The paper narrates the stages that the project went through and details the structure of integrated tools as well as the process of gathering, organization, and production of the data made available through the Digital Atlas. The main topics include the customizations made in the GIS web-platform i3geo to include time as a central variable, the implementation of the data gathering tool Oduduwa, and the main corpuses of primary sources utilized in the project.