Map Applications of the Špalíček.net Digital Library. A Contribution to Chapbook Research

Pages	59–74
DOI	10.37520/amnpsc.2023.025
Keywords	broadside ballads – chapbooks – digital library – map applications – Špalíček.net
Type of Article	Materialia
Citation	BYDŽOVSKÁ, Iva. Map Applications of the Špalíček.net Digital Library. A Contribution to Chapbook Research. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum. Prague: National Museum, 2023, 68(3-4), 59–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/amnpsc.2023.025. ISSN 2570-6861 (Print), 2570-687X (Online). Also available from: https://www.nm.cz/en/periodicals/acta-musei-nationalis-pragae-historia-litterarum/68-3-4/map-applications-of-the-spaliceknet-digital-library-a-contribution-to-chapbook-research

Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae – Historia litterarum | 2023/68/3-4

The Špalíček Digital Library has provided digital access to the collections of chapbooks since 2011. Interactive map applications make it possible to explore the geographical information contained in the digital-library database in context. They will provide researchers and the general public with a means to study chapbooks in terms of provenance and content in spatial relationships, and they will also enable their visualisation. An interactive map of printing workshops and places mentioned in chapbooks and a specialised map of pilgrimage sites in chapbooks, the latter of which is dedicated to the mapping of the depictions of pilgrimages in broadside ballads and prayer prints, are complemented by authoritative databases of places, persons and corporations and linked both to these records and to bibliographic descriptions of the printed books. This will allow the visualisation of relationships within variously defined units as well as the search for prints in the geographical context.

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