Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype
This paper presents the results of a research project in Digital Humanities. The project explores archival documents within the online system Engineering Historical Memory (EHM). EHM enables users to read primary historical sources according to different knowledge and expertise levels interactively....
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| description | This paper presents the results of a research project in Digital Humanities. The project explores archival documents within the online system Engineering Historical Memory (EHM). EHM enables users to read primary historical sources according to different knowledge and expertise levels interactively. Here, as a showcase, the authors present the interdisciplinary research (Diplomatics, History, Animation) that empowered the online publication of the original privilege issued by pope Gregory X to the monastic community of Mount Sinai in 1274. The application embodies the following research tools: 1) Digital recomposition and restoration of the photographic survey of the original parchment split into two pieces and held in two different locations in Egypt (Holy Monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai, and the Archive of the same monastery in Cairo); 2) Force-directed graph to navigate the diplomatics structure of the papal privilege; 3) Interactive geospatial visualisations of the place names (satellite views and political maps); 4) Search engines for scholarly texts, images, and videos related to the individual diplomatics, historical, and geographical entities itemised in the application; 5) 3D modelling of the lost lead seal of the privilege; 6) Customary web-based visualisation tool for the 3D model of the seal. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8f0bc5af8da64e6695d0eb082d9382202022-12-21T20:04:10ZengUniversity of BolognaUmanistica Digitale2532-88162021-09-011032535710.6092/issn.2532-8816/1256710877Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a PrototypeAndrea Nanetti0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3846-1254Davide Benvenuti1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0439-6666Nanyang Technological University SingaporeNanyang Technological University SingaporeThis paper presents the results of a research project in Digital Humanities. The project explores archival documents within the online system Engineering Historical Memory (EHM). EHM enables users to read primary historical sources according to different knowledge and expertise levels interactively. Here, as a showcase, the authors present the interdisciplinary research (Diplomatics, History, Animation) that empowered the online publication of the original privilege issued by pope Gregory X to the monastic community of Mount Sinai in 1274. The application embodies the following research tools: 1) Digital recomposition and restoration of the photographic survey of the original parchment split into two pieces and held in two different locations in Egypt (Holy Monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai, and the Archive of the same monastery in Cairo); 2) Force-directed graph to navigate the diplomatics structure of the papal privilege; 3) Interactive geospatial visualisations of the place names (satellite views and political maps); 4) Search engines for scholarly texts, images, and videos related to the individual diplomatics, historical, and geographical entities itemised in the application; 5) 3D modelling of the lost lead seal of the privilege; 6) Customary web-based visualisation tool for the 3D model of the seal.https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/12567archival documentspope gregory xmonastic community of mount sinaiinteractive systemspapal diplomaticsmedieval history |
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| title | Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype |
| title_full | Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype |
| title_fullStr | Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype |
| title_short | Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents: The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Monastic Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype |
| title_sort | engineering historical memory and the interactive exploration of archival documents the online application for pope gregory x s privilege for the monastic community of mount sinai 1274 as a prototype |
| topic | archival documents pope gregory x monastic community of mount sinai interactive systems papal diplomatics medieval history |
| url | https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/12567 |
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