Sistema de reconstituição de fatos históricos: ιστορία (istoría)

Abstract

Using tridimensional technology innovations, the ἱστορία is a historical fact reconstruction system. It has as foundation some ideas already presented in websites like the Wikipedia. Inside ἱστορία users get involved in a community that resembles a forum where besides being able to edit information inserted by other users, they also can vote changes up or down based on their content. The initiative behind this project is the bad impression that many students have from the History subject and by using technology in service of the education, ease the way the students relate a historic fact to another. By means of programming languages common to several other projects, as HTML and PHP, and one in special: the WebGL API, the ἱστορία is the ideal system for all those who want to integrate and review their historical knowledge. The users have, like in the Wikipedia, the power to change information made by another users, but unlike the virtual encyclopedia, the inserted facts visualization has emphasis in making the relations between several facts evident. Therefore, the historical fact reconstruction system tries to provide an improvement in the teaching of history as a subject, modernizing it and making it more interactive.