Building a Digital Portal for Exploring Bernard and Picart’s Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the World

FAIN: HAA-263807-19

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)
J.B. Shank (Project Director: June 2018 to February 2023)
Benjamin Wiggins (Co Project Director: November 2018 to February 2023)

The development of an online, open-access portal bringing together the multiple editions of The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, an important Enlightenment volume about world religions and customs.

The project team will build an open-source online portal to facilitate the study of the transformative Enlightenment blockbuster, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World. Despite the massive influence of its numerous and variable lavishly illustrated editions, its unstable print history has deterred scholarly study of the work, not least because its many variants are strewn all over the globe. Our portal will allow digitized copies of diverse editions from disparate repositories to be accessed in a single virtual space, permitting searching and comparative inter-textual study of word and image across multiple versions and in conjunction with other books from the era. It will also serve as a model for other comparative projects based on curated aggregations of texts, images, and collections in a way that avoids copyright problems and prohibitive costs.

Associated Products

Mutable media — old school style A U of M project uses 21st-century digital technology to bring an 18th-century print sensation fully into view (Article)
Title: Mutable media — old school style A U of M project uses 21st-century digital technology to bring an 18th-century print sensation fully into view
Author: Allison Campbell-Jensen
Abstract: Article for a UMN audience about the project to build the CCR portal and the significance of the CCR and its mutability for 18th-century users.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: http://www.continuum.umn.edu/2020/04/mutable-media-old-school-style/
Access Model: Online, open access
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Continuum
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries

Bernard & Picart (Web Resource)
Title: Bernard & Picart
Author: Luke Freeman
Author: Benjamin Wiggins
Author: JB Shank
Abstract: Public facing website for our mission to create a prototype Digital Portal for accessing the CCR and catalog the distinctive features of every copy of Bernard & Picart's Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses. Updated to the current Enlightenment Unbound page as part of the University of Minnesota Libraries' website redesign. Is maintained by the University Libraries and replaces picartbernard.com
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.lib.umn.edu/collections/enlightenment-unbound

Mirador Portal for Ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world (Web Resource)
Title: Mirador Portal for Ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world
Author: Benjamin Wiggins
Author: Chad Fennell
Author: Jason Roy
Abstract: Open access Mirador portal created by the CCR DHAG team for comparing and sharing copies of Bernard and Picart's Ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://umnlibraries.github.io/ccr/

Picart's Mirador (Web Resource)
Title: Picart's Mirador
Author: Chad Fennell
Author: Jason Roy
Author: Jeff Peterson
Author: Michael Berkowski
Abstract: Access to the code for an instance of the Mirador application to support the Building a Digital Portal for Exploring Bernard and Picart's Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the World grant project.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://github.com/UMNLibraries/ccr

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