Applications

List of useful digital and spatial history applications

Title	Short description	Creator	Link
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 Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Kraków Archive and Library of the Kraków Cathedral Chapter Archive of Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak	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.	The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Kraków Archive of Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak Library and archive of Bielsko-Żywiec dioecese	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