Project: SEAFACTS – a digital platform for maritime history

Project: SEAFACTS – a digital platform for maritime history

The primary goal of the project is to develop and make available data from Dansk Søfartstidende. The project has a particular focus on ship dispatches published in Dansk Søfartstidende in the years 1893-1962, and involves scanning, automated analysis and interpretation of data regarding Danish ships on arrivals and departures as well as other incidents for which notes are available. In addition to making the resulting data available so that they can be integrated into standard tools for representing digitized data, the plan is to develop a dedicated application that supports searches aimed at special studies based on, for example, time, place and context.

The project's results in the form of a database and dedicated search application primarily provide new opportunities for research, among other things, by virtue of the fact that individual ships or a shipping company's entire fleet can be followed and analyzed in time and space. Furthermore, new uses of maps and data visualizations in the dissemination of Danish maritime history are enabled. Finally, the project will make the complete publications of the Danish Maritime Journal available to the general public in a clear and easily accessible form through the M/S Maritime Museum.