The World-Tree Project – and interactive Digital Archive for the Teaching and Study of the Vikings have gone live. Explore the new website…
The World-Tree Project is the first large-scale community collection initiative in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic and Viking Studies. The Project aims to create an interactive digital archive for the teaching and study of Norse and Viking cultures that will be of benefit to both the scholarly community and the wider public.
Through community collection, the World-Tree Project will bring together the incredible diversity of resources on the Vikings – ranging from digitised museum collections to reports on living history events – and use this material to create interpretative exhibitions, teaching aids and interactive resources. We will also use the material we collect to begin to map responses to Norse and Viking heritage in Europe and to test new models for heritage engagement and knowledge exchange. The archive will be launched with an international conference on community engagement with the Vikings to be held in Cork in November.
The archive obviously aims at creating a kind of “database” of viking finds and objects through crowd-sourcing; and out of this create a sort of Viking Encyclopaedia.
A corner stone will be the ability to get people from all-over the Viking-community – both academics and amateurs – to post stories about finds, replicas, research, teaching resources and much more; and afterwards, exploring the possibility of using this material to creative interpretive, digital exhibitions.
The Project is based in the School of English at University College Cork, and is funded by an Irish Research Council ‘New Horizons’ Grant.
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