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Today we launched the "Runor" digital research platform for nordic runic inscriptions https://www.raa.se/runor , one of the deliverables from the three-year Evighetsrunor project https://www.raa.se/kulturarv/runor-och-runstenar/projektet-evighetsrunor/ in partnership with Uppsala universitet. #runology
This release was a bit more personal for me than most. Although the project has run for a little over three years, I've actually been working on the underlying data model and the script to transform, augment, and impose order(!) on the Samnordisk runtextdatabas files since 2008.
Mostly as a hobby project in my spare time. It's fair to say that I wouldn't be where I am today without that earlier work. Working on the database as a concrete project has taught me a lot about programming, database design, and all manner of technical skills that I now rely on.
Thanks first to a meeting with @TarrinWills , then with @jarlabanke and ultimately @arkland_swe , I credit the fruit of that work with helping to get me a position in information development at @raa_se years ago.
It's scary to think how much of my life I've devoted to getting that database *just* right. And almost as scary to now see it released. Above, all, though, I've really enjoyed working on it. I like runes. I like programming and databases and the web. It's been great. 
(Perhaps not right now, at launch, but…) I hope that most of this work will go unnoticed. Because I hope it will just work as you expect. I hope that the things you take for granted in such a platform, will just be there. I hope nobody ever has to think about it.
Thanks to @JanOwe10 for maintaining such a vital and uncompromisingly rigourous database in the form of SRDB, which the new database builds upon and without which Runor would not have been possible.
Thanks to @halar44 for making sure that the project got delivered, no matter what, despite extremly difficult circumstances. (Which I may, on occassion, have contributed to…)
Thanks to @jarlabanke and @arkland_swe for making sure the project got properly specced and funded, despite a couple of initial false starts and refusals.
Thanks to the designers and developers at Riksantikvarieämbetet and Uppsala universitet who made the interface and API.
Thanks to the designers and developers at Riksantikvarieämbetet and Uppsala universitet who made the interface and API.
Thanks to @DavidHaskiya for ensuring we got the resources we needed to get the project done properly.
Thanks to @IlseHammarstrom for such a great job presenting today. I look forward to managing and developing the platform further with you!
Thanks to @IlseHammarstrom for such a great job presenting today. I look forward to managing and developing the platform further with you!
(I might add, as an addendum: not all the images are displaying yet, but they should almost all be working by Tuesday! 
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