THE OTTOMAN GRAVESTONE DIGITAL DATABASE
Hüve’l-Bâkî.
He is Everlasting
A digital heritage database connecting cemeteries, gravestones, epitaphs and historical people. Explore the Ottoman past through its records and sources.
AN INTERCONNECTED DATABASE
One record. Many perspectives.
From place to structure, from script to people: follow your research across record types.
Location Atlas
Explore cemeteries on the map
Find published cemeteries with recorded locations.
THE DATABASE TODAY
Research linked to published records
Published sites in the database
Structural and documentation records
Searchable biographical records
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE COLLECTION
Records from the database.
SOURCE · DOCUMENT · CONTEXT
Understand a record through its source.
Hüvel Bâkî connects research sources with structural and textual records. Examine visual evidence, epitaph readings and biographical information in context.
Meet the researchers and their workAcademic source
Theses, books and research context
Documentation
Cemetery, tomb, image and text records
Connected database
Traceable links between people, epitaphs and structures
FOR RESEARCHERS AND ADVISORS
From fieldwork to thesis. From thesis to digital database.
Give your research a life beyond a file. Organize cemetery and tomb data, texts and images in one workspace and build your academic catalog.
- 01
Apply
Submit your Researcher / Editor application.
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Record your data
Add cemeteries and tombs using forms or by choosing a map location.
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Organize your research
Connect images, people, epitaphs and motifs to your records.
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Create your thesis
Prepare your catalog in thesis format and export it.
PRESERVING TOGETHER
There is a place for you in this shared memory.
Researchers, epigraphists, historians and volunteers: help us document our shared cultural heritage.
Read the text together
Contribute to epitaph readings through Ottoman transcription and translation.
Document our heritage
Share cemetery and tomb photographs, locations and field observations in their research context.
Research the connections
Help understand historical lives through biographical and family research.