eViterbo global report. Outlines on the creation of a research open platform using MediaWiki and Wikibase.

This document intends to give an overview of the organization of the eViterbo platform system. It describes the choices and challenges behind its creation, the outline of the infrastructure and the data model, reflecting on the main challenges of creating and maintaining such a platform in a social sciences and humanities academic environment. Some of its content contains lessons learned in practice, doubts, and open questions; in this way tries to achieve to be a best practices reference for future projects. 

“eViterbo global report” was produced under the scope of the research project TechNetEMPIRE - Technoscientific Networks in the construction of the built environment in the Portuguese Empire (1647-1871), supported by FCT - Fundação para  Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/ART-DAQ/31959/2017) and Wikimedia in Residence at FCSH - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - contract with the support of Wikimedia Portugal, a Wikimedia Foundation national chapter. Because the technical infrastructure and content of the platform will evolve, so will this report, and future versions of this report are to be expected.