Early access, version 0.9 Data in progress. Do not use as a source reference.

SCC Explorer

Interactive Platform on the History of the Congregation of the Council


This interactive platform will guide you to discover the history of the Sacred Congregation of the Council - the SCC - one of the greatest dicasteries of the Roman Curia founded in 1564 and whose activity and influence reaches to the present day. Through our numerous integrated scientific projects and varied electronic resources, you can learn about the actors, practices, and places of SCC and have access to rich opensource databases.







Projects






Resources



Logbook for working with historical data in R environment

Working with historical data in a programming environment is challenging because of the contextual specifics of historical data which engage uncertainty, incompleteness, ambiguity of data and their interpretation. This logbook documents the challenges, research questions and programming solutions experienced in the framework of the SCC Explorer Platform. Therefore, this logbook aims to provide answers for various questions appearing before a historian who wants to use R and Java Script for proceeding the data obtained from historical sources

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SCC Data Model

A systematized data model of the SCC structure.

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Orbis Dioecesium (OrDi)

Authority data on legal-historical changes of catholic dioceses

Authority data that allow the identification of all Catholic dioceses and all historical-legal changes undergone by each diocese from the date of its foundation until today. Dioceses and phases of their historical development are citable via persistent identifiers.

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Changelog



Oct 2026

Mobile version fixed

MINOR FIXES 17 October 2026

The mobile version has been fixed: all functions are now usable on phones and tablets.

Oct 2026

The code is now open source

OPEN SOURCE 10 October 2026

The GitHub repository of the project, SCC-projects/scc-explorer, is now public. It contains demo versions of the applications, which you can try out and adapt to your own data.

Oct 2026

Early access 0.9 is live

LAUNCH UPDATE 1 October 2026

Early access version 0.9 is now live. The data is still in progress.

Aug 2026

Calendar switcher for the Timeline

MASSIVE UPDATE 18 August 2026

A calendar switcher was added to the Timeline Explorer.

  • Julian, Gregorian and papal calendars can now be switched.
  • Easter dates were added.

All data is now synchronised across the three calendars, and each card shows its calendar marks.

Jul 2026

Guide and documentation rewritten

MINOR FIXES 13 July 2026

The user guide and the documentation of the Timeline Explorer were rewritten for the new format of the application and its new functionality.

May 2026

Timeline data and functionality

NEW CONTENT 19 May 2026

Data and functionality updates for the Timeline Explorer.

  • The cardinals timeline and the main timeline were merged.
  • The visual style of the timelines was updated.
  • Cross-links between cards are now available.
Apr 2026

From R Shiny to JavaScript

MASSIVE UPDATE 14 April 2026

The applications were converted from R Shiny to JavaScript, which improved performance and usability.