Portuguese Mapping Project Funded at TLC2
Portuguese Mapping of Coastal Africa
(PMOCA) a collaboration project between TLC
2 at UH and University of California-Irvine. A collaborative funded project from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities between University of California-Irvine Professor Pat Seed and TLC
2, to create a database of all the places that the Portuguese first encountered nearly six hundred years ago.
When Portuguese ships first sailed past Africa’s “Bulging Cape” in 1434, they encountered coasts that had never before been mapped. As they sketched the shorelines from the decks of their ships, they began learning how to draw large swaths of the continent accurately. The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities has funded Josten Ma and graduate student in conjunction with University of California-Irvine Professor Pat Seed to create a database of all the places that the Portuguese first encountered nearly six hundred years ago.
Click to visit the PMOCA web site (development in progress).
The project is highlighted in the NEH bimonthly magazine. Click to read more on the article.
