OVER THE PAST ten years the spatial turn in the humanities in Scandinavia has resulted in a growing number of infrastructural projects aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary research into spatial aspects of a rich variety of materials, place-names, early modern inventories and cadastral maps, medieval literature and art, as well as Viking-Age and medieval runic inscriptions, to name just a few. This intensive development has brought about a number of challenges, as these projects differ with regard to their agendas, setups, and customized approaches to data, theories, and methods. A number of different solutions to common problems such as geocoding complex humanities data is of course inevitable, as different points of departure regarding the perceived needs of future users, research questions, and consequent priorities have shaped the projects' outputs. Nevertheless, for the development of the rapidly growing field of spatial research infrastructure studies in the humanities to be sustainable requires a conversation about the different ways we as a community understand, build, (re)use, maintain, and develop digital platforms and other types of infrastructure as well as the data they serve; another focal point of such a conversation would be the ongoing negotiation of best practices regarding spatial data management and the use of linked open data (LOD) in line with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles. Consequently, the main aim of the current volume is to introduce the latest developments in the field, as well as to provide the possibility for such a dialogue in book format. The reader is served a smorgasbord of theoretical perspectives, methodological tools, and—most importantly—practical approaches to creating and talking about digital spatial research infrastructures (SRIs) in the humanities.

The volume introduces nine spatial infrastructure resources that are currently being developed: Norse World; Mapping Saints; the Icelandic Saga Map; Nafnið.is; TORA, a topographical register at the National Archives of Sweden; the Swedish Digital Place- Name Register; the Swedish Open Cultural Heritage; and DigDag, a digital atlas of the historical and administrative geography of Denmark.