DOI: 10.57903/uj/hwythm
title: Religion and urbanity. Mapping and relating religious fields in contemporary Polish cities (RUM PROJECT ARCHIVE / URBAN RELIGION ARCHIVE App, URA) - research data
title: Religia i miejskość. Mapowanie i powiązanie pól religijnych we współczesnych polskich miastach. (RUM PROJECT ARCHIVE / URBAN RELIGION ARCHIVE App, URA) - dane badawcze

description: The RUM project team consisted of researchers and collaborators who contributed at various stages of the project's development, each engaging with its conceptual, technical, and fieldwork components in different capacities. 
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The final structure, form and content of the &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;RUM Archive&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; was shaped by &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Natalia Zawiejska (PI), Łukasz Stypuła, Radosław Piskorski (GIS)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aleksandra Jasińska (GIS)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. The field data collection was carried out by local teams in &lt;b&gt;Kraków, Lublin, and Gdańsk.&lt;/b&gt;
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Every multimedia file (photo, audio, video) included in the dataset is attributed to an individual author, indicated by initials and date embedded in the filename. The following initials refer to specific contributors (listed alphabetically):
&lt;p&gt;AM – Anna M. Maćkowiak;
&lt;p&gt;KB – Klaudia Bochniarz;
&lt;p&gt;LS – Łukasz Stypuła;
&lt;p&gt;MB – Maria Brzyska;
&lt;p&gt;MO – Mikhail Obzhigalin;
&lt;p&gt;MT – Monika Tarajko;
&lt;p&gt;NZ – Natalia Zawiejska;
&lt;p&gt;RP – Radosław Piskorski;
&lt;p&gt;SS – Sophie Stolberg;
&lt;p&gt;WW – Weronika Wolska.
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This naming convention ensures the traceability of authorship for each dataset element and reflects the collaborative and distributed nature of the data collection process.
&lt;p&gt; Descriptions and Names are authored by &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Natalia Zawiejska&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Łukasz Stypuła.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the research process, contributors provided an initial description of the data (name, short description, ethnographic notes if necessary, additional information on the researched data if necessary). The final version of the data description is authored by Natalia Zawiejska and Łukasz Stypuła.
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dorota Wąsik&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - proofreading of the database in English and translation of names from English into Polish (Kraków, Gdańsk).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Grzegorz Słowiński&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - proofreading of the database in English and translation of names from English into Polish (Lublin).
description: &lt;p&gt;This data set constitutes the central component of the &lt;b&gt;RUM PROJECT (Religion-Urbanity-Mapping)&lt;/b&gt;, a research-based spatial archive of urban religion in Poland. It was developed as part of an interdisciplinary project conducted at the Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, involving scholars from fields such as religious studies, anthropology, human geography, urban sociology, and digital humanities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;b&gt;RUM Archive&lt;/b&gt; comprises a complex and relational database documenting religious elements and practices in the urban space of three Polish cities: &lt;b&gt;Kraków, Lublin, and Gdańsk. &lt;/b&gt; It is structured spatially and semantically through a typology of entries, points, lines, and streets, each connected to a set of metadata categories developed by the research team. These categories reflect an attempt to describe and contextualize religious icons and phenomena in urban space, without imposing hierarchical, historical, or confessional prioritization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The dataset includes thousands of entries with standardized information (e.g., religion, temporality, visibility, organizational structure, political/worldview relations, etc.), enriched by photographs, video recordings, sound files, and vector data (geodatabase). All content is georeferenced and linked to an interactive map built within the &lt;b&gt;RUM Project Archive / Urban Religion Archive (URA) application.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To ensure ethical data use, images of private individuals were blurred or taken from anonymizing angles, and sensitive content was either omitted or made imprecise in terms of geolocation. Public figures and entities appearing in the material remain visible as part of the documented urban landscape. All data were collected following approval by the &lt;u&gt;Faculty Ethics Committee of the Jagiellonian University.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The RUM dataset enables reproducible research, comparative studies, and interdisciplinary reflection on religion’s spatial, material, and social presence in the city. It was designed not only as an archive but also as a tool for theorizing urban religion in Central and Eastern Europe. The repository is accompanied by a research glossary (available as a separate file), a category system, and a user guide to interpret the data (README file). It complies with the FAIR principles and OpenAIRE guidelines, and each dataset is assigned a DOI to ensure citation and accessibility.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Project was funded by the National Science Center in the OPUS 19 program no. 2020/37/B/HS1/02363; Agreement no. UMO-2020/37/B/HS1/02363.&lt;/p&gt;