Databases under the LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ
LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ is a joint digital infrastructure project for research in the humanities and culture. It focuses on making sources accessible, preserving them, and protecting them in the digital age. The digital humanities are becoming increasingly important in international research and contribute significantly to the visibility of institutions, not only among the scientific community. The project uses the pan-European DARIAH ERIC technology to maximize connectivity among the broad scientific community in Europe. Researchers also contribute their data to the repository of this infrastructure.
Mission
- To provide the public, students, and researchers with unique, specialized, carefully prepared, and enriched electronic collections, data, and services that meet the latest standards.
- To support and facilitate research into intellectual history based on Bohemian sources, particularly from the Middle Ages and early modern period.
- To make the works of important figures in Czech philosophy accessible for study and research using digital methods.
The LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ project (LM2023062 and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001781; originally LM2010013, LM2015071) is fully supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the LM "Large Infrastructures" program.
MEMORI is a collection of thematically related databases whose main goal is to support and facilitate research into Bohemian sources, particularly from the Middle Ages and early modern period.
IP CAS curates the following MEMORI databases:
- Comenius Online
Correspondence of Jan Amos Comenius, Philipp Sachs von Löwenheimb, Amandus Polanus of Polansdorf and others; cooperation with international database Early Modern Letters Online, “EMLO”) - Czech Medieval Sources Online
The Czech Medieval Sources Online portal publishes important editions on Czech medieval history. Currently, 770 volumes are available, with around six new volumes added each month. At the beginning of 2019, the number of unique daily visits reached 1,400,000. - Dictionary of Medieval Latin
The Dictionary of Medieval Latin (Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum) is an electronic version of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in the Czech Lands, covering the current form of the entire text of the Dictionary published to date, i.e. letters A–M, including the second, revised edition of parts I–II (A–H). - Documenta Latinitatis Bohemorum
A database of selected Latin texts from the Czech Middle Ages, including critical apparatus and explanatory notes by the editors. The texts are licensed under CC BY-SA. The database offers reliable search capabilities, easy full-text downloads, and quick consultation of relevant dictionaries. There are plans to integrate it into the umbrella database "Corpus corporum" (https://mlat.uzh.ch/), which is maintained by the Institute of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Zurich. - UniQ
The UniQ project is dedicated to the Prague struggle over universals ca. 1348–1500, making information about the corresponding corpus of texts available in a digital environment. It includes primarily information about texts written at the University of Prague and texts available in Bohemia that are relevant to the dispute over universals, although their influence was broader. - OptiQ
The OptiQ project aims to create a database application for a corpus of medieval and early modern texts on the history of optics, which are preserved mainly in manuscripts. - Antiquity and Czech Culture
The Antiquity and Czech Culture collection consists of two databases: Antique Inspiration in Fine Arts and Staging of Antique Drama.
- Ancient Inspiration in Fine Arts
The database contains most of the monuments inspired by antiquity that were created or commissioned in the Czech lands before the 16th century. - Stagings of ancient drama
The database of stagings of ancient drama is based on a long-term collection of documents and continuously records stagings of ancient drama in the Czech lands from 1889 to the present.
- Ancient Inspiration in Fine Arts
- Analytical philosophy
ArtCon - A bibliography of scholarly works on artificial consciousness.
List of other databases
Patočka Digital is a work-in-progress. Follow the Patočka Digital blog for updates. Meanwhile, you can browse Jan Patočka’s bibliography.
Ancient Inspiration in the Visual Arts
The database maps Greco-Roman heritage in Czech lands since the beginnings until present. It contains works of art inspired by the classical tradition and created in Czech lands or for clients living here.
The Antiquity in Inscriptions of Czech Provenance
The database documents the classical heritage in the epigraphic culture of Czech lands since the first inscribed documents until present. The inscription is defined as a text on durable materials (stone, metal, ceramics etc.) or on tapestries.
The Bibliography of Jan Patočka
Black Key (Clavis nigra)
A database of polyphonic compositions of Czech origin from the 15th and 16th century in black mensural notation.
Bohuslai Balbini Bohemia docta
A facsimile of the first and second part (Tractatus primus, Tractatus secundus) of Balbín’s treatise Bohemia docta, allowing to search for proper names.
Card file index of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands
The database contains scanned card files (sections A-D, Pi-Z) which serve as a basis for the creation of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands.
The Correspondence of Jan Amos Comenius and other
The Correspondence of Milada Blekastad
Czech medieval sources on-line
Dictionary of Czech and Slovak book printers
The database contains information about all book printers who were ever active on the territory of former Czechoslovakia. Included are all book printers since the beginnings of book printing until 1860.
Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands
An electronic version of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands, covering the whole extent of the Dictionary published so far, i. e. the letters A–M, including the second, revised edition of the letters A–H.
Digital Photograph Archive of the Institute for Classical Studies (Accessible from the ICS Library computers only)
The digital photograph archive of the Centre includes photos of works of art, manuscripts and old prints, all created before 1800 (e. g., the Evangeliary of Zábrdovice, the Codex Franus, Comenius’ maps of Moravia, decorations of the rotunda in Znojmo and of the summer palace Hvězda, the Passion cycle in the St. Wenceslas Chapel in the St. Vitus Cathedral etc.).
Early Modern Scholars
Fontes rerum Regni Bohemiae
An electronic edition of Latin chronicles.
Hymnorum thesaurus Bohemicus
The database contains transcriptions of Czech spiritual songs from ca. sixty historical hymn books published in 16th-18th centuries, covering practically the whole hymn book production of the time. It contains 21221 entries on individual songs.
J. P. Cerroni: Scriptores Regni Bohemiae
The dictionary of writers and scholars of the Bohemian Kingdom Scriptores Regni Bohemiae, compiled by Moravian official, historian and collector Johann Peter Cerroni (1753-1826). This work represents a consummation of efforts of many scholars of the second half of the 18th century to grasp the educational history of the Czech state in accord with the concept of historia litteraria from the beginning until their present day. This database comprises letters A-B so far, other entries being added gradually.
Knihopis Digital
A database of incunabula and old prints printed in Czech language, or a retrospective bibliography of Czech printed books since the beginnings of book printing until 1800.
LIMUP: Database of contents of Utraquist liturgical manuscripts from the 15th-16th century
The database contains bibliographic information about 1198 liturgical manuscripts of Czech provenance from 12th-18th centuries.
Performances of ancient dramas
The database contains basic information about Czech performances of ancient plays by professional, semi-professional and amateur theatres and puppet theatres since 1889 until present, including data about guest appearances of foreign companies since 1960 and data about performances in the Czech Television and the Czech Radio.
Repertorium operum antihussiticorum (Repertoire of Anti-Hussite Works)
Repertory of incunabula in Czech
The database of incunabula in Czech, including a short characteristics, bibliography and facsimiles of title pages and all illustrations.
