On 19 and 20 January 2024 at the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University held the first Digital Humanities Fair of the Jagiellonian University, organised by the Jagiellonian Centre for Digital Humanities and the Flagship Project of the Initiative of Excellence at the Jagiellonian University “Digital Humanities Lab”. The aim of THC UJ was both to promote activities in the field of digital humanities among students, PhD students and staff of the Jagiellonian University, as well as to integrate the environment of digital humanists working at the University.
On the first day of the fair, participants could listen to lectures and talk about numerous humanistic and digital projects implemented at the Jagiellonian University. On the second day of the event, workshops were held by digital humanists from the Jagiellonian University (link to the programme: https://zakopane.if.uj.edu.pl/event/28/contributions/).
At the Friday meeting in the lecture hall of the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University, which was opened by the Vice-Rector for Didactics, prof. dr hab. Armen Edigarian, presented research groups from 8 faculties of our university (Faculty of Polish Studies, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Administration, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Faculty of International and Political Studies and Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Informatics), Jagiellonian Library, Museum of the Jagiellonian University, Jagiellonian University Computer Science Centre and partners from Tadeusz Kościuszko Kraków University of Technology, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Databases and digital tools used in humanities research and interdisciplinary research projects representing a wide range of applications of digital humanities were presented. The deliberations and discussions, which lasted until late in the evening, were attended by more than 100 people: researchers, PhD students and students.
Project team "IURA. Sources of Law from the Past” composed of dr hab. Krzysztof Fokt, dr Mateusz Mataniak, dr Paulina Kamińska, under the supervision of dr hab. Maciej Mikuła, prof. UJ, presented the presentation of the IURA database, a platform that is a repository of sources
of law from the past and allowing them to be edited. The subject of the presentation was the following issues: the current state of editing legal and historical sources and related needs, adaptation of tools to very different needs of recipients, equipping the repository with additional functionalities and challenges related to the description
objects in metadata.
Prof. dr hab. Maciej Mikuła talked about the functionalities of the IURA database, its main features, text comparison, search tools and metadata. Dr Paulina Kamińska introduced the audience to the logic of the collection and presented an old print from the 16th century published in the IURA database (document in text format in two versions transcriptio and editio and a scan of the original source) prepared on the basis of Instrukcja wydawnicza dla źródeł historycznych od XVI do połowy XIX wieku, edited by Kazimierz Lepszy from 1953. Dr hab. Krzysztof Fokt, on the example of parallel edition (digitization of the typewritten copy and photocopy of the original manuscript) of the rural court book of the Mazovian village of Czermno, presented the specific application of the IURA platform, which is to make available the unpublished work of the staff of the Departments of History and Law of the Jagiellonian University in the form of copies of the rural court books created in the 1950s and 1960s. 20th century (so-called “Teki Vetulaniego”, stored in Pracownia Wydawnictw Źródłowych at the Jagiellonian University).
