Applications
From LHDB
List of useful digital and spatial history applications
| Title | Short description | Creator | Link |
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| geo-ecclesiae | The geo-ECCLESIAE portal provides information on research data resources on the history of Christianity. Most of the data is made available under open licenses and is spatially referenced. The portal also presents tabular data, textual data and references to external collections. | Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland | https://data.geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/ |
| Atlas of the Latin Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Eighteenth Century | Latin churches, monasteries, convents, ecclesiastical and secular boundaries (more...). | Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland | https://geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/apps/latin-church-1772 |
| Religions and Denominations in the (Polish) Crown in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century | Christian churches: Catholic (Greek, Latin and Armenian rites), Orthodox, Protestant (Lutheran, Calvinist, Czech Brethren and Mennonite), Jewish synagogues, Karaite kenesas, Muslim mosques. Boundaries of palatinates and Catholic church administration (Latin and Uniate) around 1772 (more...). | Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland | https://geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/apps/confessions-crown-1772/ |
| Territorial structure of the Latin Church before World War II | Roman Catholic churches and ecclesiastical boundaries (metropolises, dioceses, deaneries) circa 1938. (more...). | Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland | https://geo-ecclesiae.kul.pl/apps/latin-church-1938/ |
| DataAtlasFontium: a repository of historical data | A historical data repository based on GeoNode technology: a web-based platform that allows for the gathering and sharing of spatial data and its metadata, as well as simple visualizations (more...). | Department of Historical Atlas, he Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences | https://data.atlasfontium.pl/ |
| Maps of the Past | The "Maps of the Past" app presents calibrated old maps, including topographic maps of the Military Geographical Institute from the interwar period, 19th century Prussian and German maps, or old city plans. Plans are underway to add other cartographic editions to the service and application (more...). | Department of Historical Atlas, he Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences | https://atlas.ihpan.edu.pl/pastmaps/ |
| World Historical Gazetteer | The World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) contains data and services that enable historians to conduct spatial and temporal analysis and visualization, for example, it allows for the reconciliation of geographic-historical data (more...). | World History Center, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh | https://whgazetteer.org/search/# |
| gazetteers.net | The application allows searching for and comparing information from several historical databases of localities in present-day Germany and Poland. It supports the identification and aggregation of locations included in different data sets (more...). | Herder Institute; Institute for Regional Geography; Justus Liebig University Giessen | https://www.gazetteers.net/app/#/ |
| The Historic Gazetteer | The application was originally created to identify localities in genealogical and historical research. It contains structures and locations, the history of their affiliation with state and church administrative units and the information on resources (more...). | Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (CompGen) | http://www.gov.genealogy.net/search/index |
| Internet Atlas of Independent Poland | An Internet Atlas of Independent Poland is a historical and cartographic portal that presents a reconstruction of Polish lands’ settlement network and administrative divisions at the turn of the 20th century and in the interwar period. In addition to cartographic documentation, the application provides historical information (statistical data) about settlements and entire units of territorial administration. | The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, and The Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology | https://atlas1918.ihpan.edu.pl/en/ |
| Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Lands in the Middle Ages | The dictionary contains source data from the period up to the early 16th century on localities and physiographic objects. The volumes and parts cover provinces and lands. The application allows searching for headings and all words in whole entries. | The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences | http://www.slownik.ihpan.edu.pl/ |
| Remontez le temps ! | Geoportal allowing the content of selected historical maps of France since the 17th century to be compared with contemporary cartographic data. | Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière | https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/ |
| Religious Heritage of Lesser Poland | The portal contains studies of selected works of art from the Kraków diocese, popular-scientific studies of the history of selected localities and parishes, as well as scans of selected archival materials from the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Kraków, the Archive and Library of the Kraków Cathedral Chapter, and the Archive of the Lviv Archdiocese (formerly the Archive of Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak). | The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow
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https://sdm.upjp2.edu.pl/en |
| Digital Archive of Krakow Archdiocese | The portal contains scans of selected archival collections from the Archives of the Lviv Archdiocese (formerly the Archives of Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak), the Archives of the Metropolitan Curia in Kraków, and parish archives from the Bielsko-Żywiec diocese.
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The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow
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https://caak.upjp2.edu.pl/ |
| The base of the parochial book collections of the Catholic Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Stanislaus era | The database contains inventories of parochial and parsons' book collections in four Roman Catholic dioceses: Płock, Vilnius, Kraków and Chełm and the Chełm Greek Catholic diocese. Data can be searched according to bibliographic and geographical criteria due to 1772 year. | Dr Stanisław Witecki | http://ksiegozbioryparafialne.omnino.com.pl/index.php?action=index |
| Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce | Catalogue of Art Monuments in Poland”, published since 1951, is one of the most important publishing series of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. “Catalog” is an intermediate form between a detailed topographical inventory and a concise catalog; in principle, it takes into account all monuments outside museum and private collections, and is rich in information and illustrative material. The studies make use of the most complete literature on the subject, archival materials, historical descriptions and information, and iconography. | Art Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences | https://repozytorium.ispan.pl/dlibra/collectiondescription/10?language=pl |
| Baza Miejscowości Kresowych | List of localities in the Borderlands of the 2nd Polish Republic (1918-1939), supported by archival research and literature, set on the WIG map. | Kresy.net | https://www.kami.net.pl/kresy/ |
| EURUS | Catalog of the material heritage of the eastern lands (Borderlands) of the former Republic of Poland (photo library). | Jagiellonian Univeristy, Polish Academy of Sciences (Art Institute) | https://eurus.edu.pl/katalog/karty |