The Project „Atlas of Sources and Materials for the History of Old Poland” aims at building a uniform system for gathering, analyzing and accessing the information and sources concerned with the research on historical geography of the Polish territories within the borders before 1772. The informatics platform using GIS toolkit ...
(Show more)The Project „Atlas of Sources and Materials for the History of Old Poland” aims at building a uniform system for gathering, analyzing and accessing the information and sources concerned with the research on historical geography of the Polish territories within the borders before 1772. The informatics platform using GIS toolkit and spatiotemporal databases will store in a uniform form the results of historical geography investigations conducted in various scientific centers both in Poland and abroad.
In the first stage of the project the database structure, considering the collections of Historical Atlas of Poland in the 16th century, Historico-Geographical Dictionary of Poland in the Middle Ages, Atlas of Confessions and Religions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century, will be elaborated. The network of settlement units in the Crown (Historical Atlas of Poland in the 16th century) in the 16th century comprises around 25-30 thousand villages, towns, cities etc. Most of them, above 80%, will be included within the basic information, like the contemporary name, historical names, approximate size, ownership type, legal status etc. and connected with the entries given by the Historico-Geographical Dictionary of Poland in the Middle Ages together with the original (digitalized) sources, e.g. tax registers, canonical visitations, demographical censuses) . On the other hand, the database of the Atlas of Confessions and Religions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth registers all sacral objects (churches, temples, synagogues) with the information about the building material, patronage type, titles of churches and administrative affiliation. The database relations between historical sources (published and digitalized) and historical geoinformation locate the project on the border between so called spatial and digital humanities.
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