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This paper introduces version 1.0 of riksdagsdebatter.se, a freely available and user-friendly interface for searching, filtering, and exploring Swedish parliamentary speeches since 1867. The underlying corpus is based on open-access data from the Swedish Parliament, further processed and enriched within the SWERIK project, including re-OCRing the debate records, segmenting the text into individual speeches, and adding structured metadata, with ongoing improvements to data quality. The corpus currently comprises over one million annotated speeches, totaling approximately 450 million words, and offers a comprehensive record of political debate in modern Swedish history. This resource has wide-ranging applications for researchers and students in digital humanities, history, political science, and sociology, as well as for journalists, policymakers, and the general public. Version 1.0 of riksdagsdebatter.se provides four primary tools: word trends, keyword in context, n-gram analysis, and the ability to create and download filtered sub-corpora. 

Over the past decades the extraordinary growth of new technologies has made it possible to extract data from literary texts and analyse them using digital tools. This chapter focuses on the process of creating an enriched digital edition of Pausanias's Periegesis Hellados or Description of Greece. The purpose of this research is twofold: to identify 'heritage data' in Pausanias and to describe the technical and epistemological parameters of their aggregation and organisation. In answering the essentially digital humanities research question "how Pausanias's literary heritage information can be best organised and connected to the archaeological record on the ground", the Digital Periegesis project is charting and analysing the relevant digital tools and methods by which extensive semantic annotation and Linked Open Data (LOD) can facilitate the organisation of heritage information in Pausanias's text and its connection to actual archaeological finds. This chapter discusses the potential application of Geographic Information Science (GISc) and Geographic Information System (GIS) for such complex pre-cartesian narrative analysis. Finally, it emphasises the importance of building geo-spatially enriched digital editions collaboratively, involving discipline specialist researchers and information organisation experts, with the aim of interpreting histories of "place".

This progress article focuses on an overview of the potential and challenges of using contemporary Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for the visual rendering and analysis of textual spatial data. The case study is an ancient traveling narrative, Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados) which was written in the second century CE. First, we describe the process of converting the volumes to spatial data using a customized version of the open-source digital semantic annotation platform Recogito. Then the focus shifts to the implementation of collected and organized spatial data to a number of GIS applications: namely Google Maps, DARIAH Geo-Browser, Gephi, Palladio and ArcGIS. Through empirical experimentation with spatial data and their implementation in different platforms, our paper charts the ways in which contemporary GIS applications may be implemented to cast new light on ancient understandings of identity, space, and place.