{"id":254,"date":"2022-02-01T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/?p=254"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:03:06","slug":"a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sara Ellis-Nilsson, Linnaeus University
\n<\/em><\/h4>\n

The following content was originally published as a thread on Twitter<\/a> @MappingSaints<\/a> (Jan. 18, 2022). It has been edited for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of a new year, it’s once again time to reflect on the project and, this time, our work in 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n

The database has continued to grow and develop, with a lot of data being added. The interface now features a short description of the project and the research resource which is still under construction. The input interface,\u00a0Mapping Saints<\/em>, can now be viewed online, here: <\/span>https:\/\/<\/span>saints.dh.gu.se<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2021, we focused on data input, creating places on the Finnish map, refining our database model, and implementing IIIF. <\/span><\/p>\n

This update thread from April 2021<\/a> highlights that from <\/span>mid-March to mid-June, Steffen Hope joined us as<\/span> a research assistant to assist with the transcription and input of those calendar fragments <\/span>that have images in the Medieval Parchment Cover database (MPO)<\/a> at the Swedish National Archives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n

Our collaborative partner, the Center for Digital Humanities<\/a>, University of Gothenburg, where our research engineer, Johan \u00c5hlfeldt, is based, has been working hard to implement a IIIF-server so we can utilize this to retrieve and view images directly in our research resource, including letters in the SDHK<\/a> (Medieval charters\/Svenskt diplomatarium) database and fragments in MPO<\/a>. Johan has also worked with testing the possible implementation of an xml-editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While a lot of new material is continuously being input into the database, modelling discussions and implementations are also ongoing. For instance, Terese Zachrisson and Anders Fr\u00f6jmark have been focusing their efforts on indulgence letters and miracle stories, respectively. Lena Liepe has been matching the digitized Iconographical Index<\/em> cards to the correct Cult Manifestations<\/em>\u00a0in the database.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Throughout 2021, we were also active in presenting the project at conferences, such as at the (online) International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a> in May, <\/span>in a session entitled ‘Saints Online’ together with other exciting mapping saints projects. In addition to co-writing an article about the spatial research data infrastructure of the project (forthcoming in 2022), we published an article in 2021 focusing on the project’s art historical aspects and the digitization work done in collaboration with our partners the Swedish National Heritage Board and the Swedish National Historical Museums. The article is available here:<\/span> https:\/\/<\/span>ojs.abo.fi\/ojs\/index.php\/ico\/article\/view\/1745\/2428<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We were joined by three student interns from the Department of History, Lund University, who <\/span>input miracle stories. Our student research-assistant, Andreas Blixt, continued his work by inputting church bell and runic inscriptions, the latter including linking to relevant posts in the new database, ‘Runor<\/a>‘.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of the autumn, we focused on questions of how we model time in the database, resulting in the implementation of a “function time-period” for our Cult Manifestations<\/em> – enabling visualizations in both time and space. <\/span><\/p>\n

From 2021-2023, our Wallenberg postdoc Sofia Lahti will be working with the Finnish art historical material<\/a>. Speaking of Finland, starting in the spring 2022, we are also looking forward to finally beginning the delayed collaboration with our “sister” project, Lived Religion in Medieval Finland<\/em><\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to our Finnish collaborations and continued data input, our main goal in 2022 is to develop our future user interface. The first steps towards this goal will address appearance and functionality, as well as enabling visualizations and analyses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who has helped us and shown an interest along the way! Keep yourselves posted on further developments via Twitter<\/a> or here on our blog!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sara Ellis-Nilsson, Linnaeus University The following content was originally published as a thread on Twitter @MappingSaints (Jan. 18, 2022). It has been edited for clarity. At the beginning of a new year, it’s once again time to reflect on the project and, this time, our work in 2021. The database has continued to grow and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserade"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nA Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021 - Mapping Saints<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021 - Mapping Saints\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sara Ellis-Nilsson, Linnaeus University The following content was originally published as a thread on Twitter @MappingSaints (Jan. 18, 2022). It has been edited for clarity. At the beginning of a new year, it’s once again time to reflect on the project and, this time, our work in 2021. The database has continued to grow and […]\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mapping Saints\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-01T14:57:31+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-15T13:03:06+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Ellis Nilsson\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Ellis Nilsson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/\",\"name\":\"A Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021 - Mapping Saints\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-01T14:57:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-15T13:03:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#\/schema\/person\/b01231cc2abb43a29538d81230146007\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/\",\"name\":\"Mapping Saints\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#\/schema\/person\/b01231cc2abb43a29538d81230146007\",\"name\":\"Sara Ellis Nilsson\",\"description\":\"Sara Ellis Nilsson has a Ph.D. in (medieval) history from the University of Gothenburg and is the project leader of the Swedish Research Council funded, digital humanities project 'Mapping Lived Religion: Medieval Cults of Saints in Sweden and Finland' at Linnaeus University. Currently, as one part of the project on lived religion, she will be examining special feast days and their connection to lay piety. In addition, Ellis Nilsson is also involved in research on the use and communication of history together with colleagues at Malm\u00f6 University. In particular she is studying how Viking ships and their reconstructions are used in the formation of narratives and the transmission of knowledge in museum contexts.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/lnu.se\/en\/staff\/sara.ellisnilsson\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/author\/saelab\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021 - Mapping Saints","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021 - Mapping Saints","og_description":"Sara Ellis-Nilsson, Linnaeus University The following content was originally published as a thread on Twitter @MappingSaints (Jan. 18, 2022). It has been edited for clarity. At the beginning of a new year, it’s once again time to reflect on the project and, this time, our work in 2021. The database has continued to grow and […]","og_url":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/","og_site_name":"Mapping Saints","article_published_time":"2022-02-01T14:57:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-15T13:03:06+00:00","author":"Sara Ellis Nilsson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sara Ellis Nilsson","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/","url":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/","name":"A Short Reflection on Mapping Saints in 2021 - Mapping Saints","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-02-01T14:57:31+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-15T13:03:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#\/schema\/person\/b01231cc2abb43a29538d81230146007"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/okategoriserade\/a-short-reflection-on-mapping-saints-in-2021\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/","name":"Mapping Saints","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/#\/schema\/person\/b01231cc2abb43a29538d81230146007","name":"Sara Ellis Nilsson","description":"Sara Ellis Nilsson has a Ph.D. in (medieval) history from the University of Gothenburg and is the project leader of the Swedish Research Council funded, digital humanities project 'Mapping Lived Religion: Medieval Cults of Saints in Sweden and Finland' at Linnaeus University. Currently, as one part of the project on lived religion, she will be examining special feast days and their connection to lay piety. In addition, Ellis Nilsson is also involved in research on the use and communication of history together with colleagues at Malm\u00f6 University. In particular she is studying how Viking ships and their reconstructions are used in the formation of narratives and the transmission of knowledge in museum contexts.","sameAs":["https:\/\/lnu.se\/en\/staff\/sara.ellisnilsson\/"],"url":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/blog\/author\/saelab\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/mapping-saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}