Data · dataset · 2026
Baptisteria sacra index (BSI)
Listed in Borealis
"Baptisteria Sacra Index (BSI) is an international iconographical index of baptismal fonts with photographs of their settings from the early Christian period to the seventeenth century for scholarly research.
Description
BSI is affiliated with the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Toronto in Canada and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada"--BSI webiste. As of April 2025, the BSI has documented over 26,000 font records, 132,000 digital images, 1850 inscriptions (Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Flemish, French and Norman-French, Greek, Gaelic, Old German, Old Armenian, Italian, Latin, Runes, Spanish, Swedish, Nahuatl glyph), and over 3,500 bibliographical references about baptistmal fonts "The Directors, Harriet Sonne de Torrens and Miguel A. Torrens, commenced research for the BSI digital humanities project in 1997."--BSI
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Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.5683%2FSP3%2FNR67T7 ↗
landing page · from borealisdata ca
- DOI doi.org/10.5683/sp3/nr67t7 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from borealisdata ca
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API borealisdata.ca/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=doi%3A10.5683%2FSP3%2… ↗
metadata API · from borealisdata ca
Topics
- Stated by source
- Arts and Humanities
- From keywords
- Humanities
- Inferred from text
- Image 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Borealis | doi:10.5683/SP3/NR67T7 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].dataverse_subject:arts-and-humanities | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | /subjects |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · borealisdata ca | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| created_date | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · borealisdata ca | connector:borealisdata_ca@1.0.0 |