Link
https://www.monasterium.net/mom/home
Runtime
2014–2018
project participants
ICARUS, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, CCeH. Project lead: Thomas Aigner (ICARUS). Head of Technical Development: Georg Vogeler (Karl-Franzens-University Graz).
Funding
Funded by ICARUS e.V.
Description
Monasterium was launched in 2001 at the St. Pölten Diocesan Archives with the aim of making its rich collection of documents available digitally. Archives from all over Europe joined the idea and have since made their documents available to the public on Monasterium. As of 2021, Monasterium will make more than 650,000 documents from over 160 archives accessible. Users of the platform can not only view the archives’ documents, but also edit them themselves and suggest their results.
Monasterium initially received technical support from the Institute of Historical and Cultural Information Processing (HKI) at the University of Cologne. From 2014 to 2018, Monasterium was maintained and technically developed by employees of the Center for Information Modelling(ZIM) at the University of Graz, ICARUS and the CCeH as part of a project under the technical direction of Prof. Georg Vogeler.
The data stored in Monasterium is available as XML in an eXist-db and is prepared using XQuery, HTML and JavaScript so that users of the platform can work with it.
Publications
Vogeler, Georg (2019). “‚Monasterium.net‘ – eine Infrastruktur für diplomatische Forschung.” In: Das Mittelalter 24/1, pp. 247–252. DOI: 10.1515/mial-2019-0022.
Picture credits
Document 1259 VI 21, June 21, 1259, Kremsmünster Abbey Archives, https://www.monasterium.net/mom/AT-StiAKr/KremsmuensterOSB/1259_VI_21/charter.