Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies

• Main Authors: Petrulevich, Alexandra, Skovgaard Boeck, Simon
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Arc Humanities Press 2023
• Edition: 1
• Series: Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities - ARC
• Subjects: Biography, Literature and Literary studies; classical and medieval; digital humanities; early modern; East Norse; European history; GIS; History; History and Archaeology; humanities research intrastructures; Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies; Library and information sciences / Museology; linked open data; Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval; Literary studies: general; Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient; Literature: history and criticism; medieval; Museology and heritage studies; Old Norse; place-names; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; spatial analysis; spatial humanities; spatial infrastructure;spatiality;Medieval Studies;place names;Linked Open Data;spatial humanities;Geographic information systems (GIS); spatial references; spatial research infrastructures in the humanities; spatial-temporal data modelling; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::D Biography; thema EDItEUR::G Reference; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history

The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open so...

Table of Contents:

• Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One. Digital Spatial Infrastructures in the Humanities -- Chapter 1. Norse World from Plan to Action -- The Project and the Planning Stage -- Reality Check: Discovering Data Not Accounted for Previously -- Building Norse World -- Norse World Visualization Techniques -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2. Mapping Saints -- Project Description -- Digital Methods -- Spatialization and Lived Religion -- Visualization of Miracles and Pilgrimage -- Some Additional Challenges with Mapping Lived Religion -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Medieval to Modern -- Icelandic Saga Map -- Nafnið.is -- Case Study: Grettir Ásmundarson and His Place in the Icelandic Landscape -- Other Grettis- toponyms in the place-name archive -- Mapping meaning -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. TORA: Topographical Register at the Swedish National Archives -- Historical GIS as a Tool and Method -- Seventeenth-Century Maps of Rural Settlements -- Settlements as Basic Units in TORA -- Method for Setting Spatial Coordinates -- TORA and Related Datasets -- A Linked Data Approach -- Final Remarks and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5. Toward Digital Spatiality -- The Development of the Place-Name Collection -- The First Attempt to Make the Collections Available Online -- Second Attempt to Make the Collections (More) Available -- The How and Why of the New Digital Register -- MariaDB Database -- Elasticsearch Database -- The Public Application -- Internal Web Application for Data Maintenance -- REST Web Service -- System and Data Management -- Moving forward -- Bibliography -- Part Two. Building and Sustaining Digital Spatial Infrastructures: Challenges and Solutions -- Chapter 6. Place-Name Databases
• Place-Name Variation and Textual Criticism -- Place-Name Variation and Genre -- Place-Name Variation and Language Change -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12. Nameless Places -- Denotation without Naming -- Abstraction -- Translation Aspects -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index
• Place-Name Aspects and Data Integration -- Location -- Reference -- Time -- Location, Reference and Time: Can They Be Handled Together? -- The Solution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7. Sustainability and Best Practices for Linked Data Heritage Resources -- The Case for Linked Open Data -- Sustainability -- Different Options -- Personnel Requirements -- Infrastructural Planning -- Project Management Resources -- Maintenance and Planning for End of Life -- Formats -- Licensing -- Technical Long-Term Availability/IRIs -- Case Studies -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8. Integrating Time and Space in a Digital-Historical Administrative Atlas -- The Administrative Divisions of Denmark -- Data Structure -- Dating of Units -- Integration of Time into GIS Maps of Danish Land Units -- Viewing and Publishing the Data -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9. A Digital Periegesis -- Pausanias and the Study of Space -- Digital Spatial Research Infrastructures for Classical Studies: The Importance of Linked Open Data and Existing Ecosystems -- Structuring Data: Existing Gazetteer Ecosystems and Further Data Complexity -- Conclusions: The Future of the Past -- Bibliography -- Part Three. The Norse Perception of the World: Medieval Spatiality in the Digital Age -- Chapter 10. Flores Travels to Babylon -- The Middle English, Old West Norse, and Old Swedish Texts -- The Norse World Resource -- The External and Internal Journey -- Leaving the City -- On a Ship to Babylon -- Arriving in "Paradise" -- Lenfer Becomes Fær -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11. Place-Name Variation in Medieval Literature in the Digital Age -- Places, Place-Names, and Texts in the Digital Age -- Place-Names and Place-Name Variation in Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research -- The Norse World Approach to Place-Name Variation