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Project Znameniti: Spatial humanities and deep mapping

The construction of the portal Znameniti.hr started in 2016 with the aim of gathering and unified search of digital material of the leading figures of Croatian culture, science, art and public life from various collections / repositories of Croatian cultural, artistic and scientific institutions. The purpose of the project was to develop a collaborative platform that would make non-commercial scientific, cultural and artistic digital content more accessible to researchers and the general public. Over time, partner institutions have established a collaborative model for portal development and maintenance, and through a variety of projects, work is being done to increase the scope and diversity of digital content represented, to develop new functionalities and to include various institutions that have valuable contributions in their digital collections / repositories about prominent figures of the Croatian past and present into the project. The Znameniti Project is trying to keep up with the latest developments in the field of new technologies, especially by keeping abreast of new trends in the field of digital humanities and trying to apply the latest technological advances and ideas that will make it more attractive and interesting to both scientists and the wider research and user population. With the development of new technologies, especially GIS ( Geographical Information System ) space has again become an important concept of the humanities. The application of GIS in the field of the humanities not only achieves the ordinary spatial mapping of geographical space, but a better understanding of the concept of place as a space with its own history and memory. This use of new technologies within the humanities leads to a new multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach called spatial humanities, whose main research focus has been deep mapping in recent years. Spatial humanities, as a field of digital humanities, develops the assumption that the development of new technologies will allow multidimensional representation of space, rather than the current two-dimensional map, which is static, while developing interactive systems that will allow dynamic observation of space and place. Such processes are called deep mapping precisely because of the possibility of multiperspectival exploration as well as deep connectivity at different spatial and temporal scales. This paper focuses on prominent writers and the place / institution where digital content about them is represented. The aim of the paper is to give an account of the deep mapping of the place / institution where individual writers are stored, thus opening the possibility for a better understanding of the concept of a place and its history and memory. The mapping will attempt to cover all significant historical, cultural and social aspects that have influenced the development of individual institutions. The purpose is to raise awareness of the importance of the institution as a place where memory is being preserved, as well as to contribute to a better interpretation of the lives and activities of famous writers. This approach will try to determine in more detail in which places / institutions the digital content of individual writers is most represented, as well as the possible factors that may have influenced their representation and the quantity of their representation in that institution. With deep mapping, place takes on a whole new dimension in the virtual environment and with all its significant historical, cultural and social characteristics, it greatly facilitates the availability of a wider range of information which allows a more detailed research. With the deep mapping approach, the place takes an important role in the humanities as a source for various scientific and professional research.

Project Znameniti, digital humanities, GIS, spatial humanities, deep mapping

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