A vision for practical experimentation

Saint Olav 2030

In 2030 it will be one thousand years since Olav Haraldsson died in the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. Norway is preparing a broad national jubilee for the year. For Madiskon, 2030 provides a natural target and an international setting for experimentation.

A pilot vision, not yet a launched project

Saint Olav 2030 is a pilot vision guiding the development of Madiskon. The aim is to develop Madiskon by 2030 to a point where communities, researchers, museums, associations, educational institutions and other actors in different countries who are interested in Saint Olav and his cultural heritage can use Madiskon to gather, connect and publish their own material in compelling ways.

Cultural heritage related to Saint Olav is distributed across national and organisational borders: in churches, images, objects, pilgrimage routes, local traditions, research and the collections of museums, libraries and archives. The pilot vision asks how these materials might support independent yet interlinked stories.

The idea is not to build one central Saint Olav website. Different actors could maintain their own Madiskon instances and tell stories from their own places, materials and perspectives. Shared open structures and identifiers could at the same time make local publications discoverable and connectable as part of a wider whole.

More about Norway’s 2030 jubilee: Stiklestad Nasjonale Kultursenter →

Network

Find actors in different countries who share an interest in Saint Olav heritage and start collaboration before any possible formal project.

Content

Enable high-quality, well-sourced and visually compelling publications rooted in local material and local perspectives.

Technology

Test Madiskon’s working model, data structures, integrations and interoperability between distributed instances in real use cases.

Goal for 2030

By 2030, Madiskon should enable communities across Europe to publish visually compelling, well-sourced and interlinked stories from their own Olav-related materials.

The role of Pyhän Olavin Kilta

Pyhän Olavin Kilta ry provides the first environment in Finland in which this idea can be tested and developed. The Guild’s material and publishing work provide concrete use cases from gathering source material through to a story published for an audience.

The pilot also builds a collaboration network

The pilot vision is not primarily about technical testing. Equally important is creating collaboration among communities, researchers, museums, associations, educational institutions, communications professionals and developers. The technical platform is an enabler for that collaboration.

Interest can be expressed already at the idea stage. Participation does not require a ready-made project, a Madiskon instance of your own, or a commitment to a future project. Explore ways to collaborate and take part →