Regnum Francorum Online
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Regnum Francorum Online: interactive maps and sources of early medieval Europe, is a geospatial database with the aim of referencing historical events of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval (western) Europe to evidence in source-documents, compiling meta-data about the events, such as time, space and agency, and visualizing the events on interactive maps. This far, meta-data about more than 14.000 events are maintained in the database and avilable for further temporal and spatial analysis. Short quotes from source documents, describing the properties of the events and their components, are also maintained in the database. The events are related to their evidence in source documents, of which a majority are available in digital libraries and databases around the internet, such as Monumenta Germania historica, Regesta Imperii, Gallica and Google Books, and other libraries. These sources are linked directly or can be embedded into the historical GIS system. This is enabled by unique and persistant identifiers of the sources and the possibility to even reference individual documents by page or number.
Generation of interactive maps as PNG files from SQL-data. Generation of KML and XML files from SQL-data for web dissemination.
| Project start date: 2007-10 |
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| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d modelling - vector | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Graphical rendering | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Heads-up digitising and interactive tracing | Data capture |
| Lemmatisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Overlaying | Data analysis |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Visualisation | Data analysis |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Spatial | Content types |
| Spatial data analysis | Data analysis |
| archaeology | Discipline |
| text | Content types |
| history | Discipline |
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Spatial, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Javascript, MySQL, PHP, Apache, GDAL, OGR, FW-tools
Source material used:
Evidence of historical events found in royal and private charters, annals, coins etc. of the Frankish realm, with special attention to the growing number of source editions found in freely available digital libraries, such as the digital Monumenta Germaniae historica, Regesta imperii, Gallica, Google Books, Internet Archive and others.
Digital resource created:
SQL-database containing meta-data of historical events referenced in time, by location, agency and various classification of the event and the entities attached to the event, e. g. locations, institutions, territories, offices, personal names, historical persons, kinship relations, church patrons. The events are also referenced by source-document, with a direct URL to the source if available online. Online source editions and literature are also referenced by bibliographic data, topic keywords, historical persons, institutions and location according to the primary content of the source.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), MySQL Database
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC), Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
Publications:
Johan Åhlfeldt. "Regnum Francorum Online. Interactive maps and sources of early medieval Europe 614 - 918." Presentation at conference on New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion, Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University, Boston, USA 12-13 Mars 2010.
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| Principal staff member: | Johan Åhlfeldt |
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| Author(s) of record | Johan Åhlfeldt |
| Title | Regnum Francorum Online |
| Record created | 2010-05-10 |
| Record updated | 2010-07-20 13:12 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3751 |
| Citation of record | Johan Åhlfeldt: Regnum Francorum Online. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3751> created: 2010-05-10, last updated 2010-07-20 13:12 |