10.5281/zenodo.4088162
https://zenodo.org/records/4088162
oai:zenodo.org:4088162
Büchler, Marco
Marco
Büchler
Institut für Angewandte Informatik Leipzig, Germany
Riegert, Sarah
Sarah
Riegert
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität MünsterMünster, Germany
Alpi, Federico
Federico
Alpi
Fondazione per le scienze religiose Bologna, Italy
Cadeddu, Francesca
Francesca
Cadeddu
Fondazione per le scienze religiose Bologna, Italy
Towards big religious data, RESILIENCE Research Infrastructure for Data on Religion in the Digital Age
Zenodo
2020
Digital Transformation, Religious Studies, Research Infrastructures,Big Religious Data
2020-10-14
eng
10.5281/zenodo.4088161
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data in and for religion is arguably as old as humanity. Religious significance has been attached to an immense variety of artifacts and documents, often in written form, in nearly all spoken and written languages over the past millennia. The rise of the digital age gives to the scholar in religious studies the opportunity to build research over a much wider array of data than ever before; institutions which have data repositories (such as libraries, museums, universities, etc.) similarly have the chance to make their collections available to a larger community. On the other hand, however, there is a serious risk that a considerable amount of data gets lost during the "Digital transition". This paper presents the approach of the RESILIENCE Research Infrastructure in dealing with the issue of big data and data loss within the field of religious studies.