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Combining different diverse data on human and environmental history during the Anthropocene is an extremely challenging task, particularly, if one wants to compare written or cartographic data with a whole range of environmental data recorded for more than the past 200–300 years. In this article, our objective was to demonstrate that one of the keys to facilitating syntheses for the study of forest landscape dynamics was to conduct a thorough investigation into the historical phenomena of modernization. We believe that a comprehensive understanding of the advancements in post-enlightenment thought and contextualizing them within the evolution of the state apparatus during the 18th and 19th centuries will empower us to formulate new research questions and broaden our understanding of the mutual relations between nature and humans in the past.

Słownik prasłowiański jest dziełem łączącym cechy słownika etymologicznego i pracy z historii porównawczej języków słowiańskich. Celem jego autorów, którzy oparli się na materiałach źródłowych wszystkich języków słowiańskich, jest odtworzenie pełnego zasobu leksykalnego języka używanego przez ludy słowiańskie bezpośrednio przed rozpadem wspólnoty prasłowiańskiej na poszczególne języki (ok. VII–VIII w. n.e.). Swoimi początkami Słownik prasłowiański sięga 1954 roku. Jego pomysłodawcą był Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński. Pierwsze osiem tomów przygotowywanych pod auspicjami Komitetu Językoznawstwa Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Zakładzie, następnie Instytucie Słowianoznawstwa (od 1992– Slawistyki) PAN ukazało się w latach 1974–2001 w wydawnictwie Ossolineum w wersji drukowanej (wersja elektroniczna jest dostępna w repozytorium RCIN pod adresem https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/6907). Ich redaktorem był Franciszek Sławski. Po długiej przerwie w wydawnictwie IS PAN został wydany tom XI tom Słownika prasłowiańskiego zawierający część haseł na literę K: Kǫ–Ky, opracowany w ramach grantu NPRH nr 11H 16 0266 84 w krakowskiej pracowni IS PAN. Przygotował go zespół pod kierownictwem Marioli Jakubowicz. Jest pierwszym, który jednocześnie ukazuje się w niewielkim nakładzie drukiem, w wersji pdf oraz ma postać bazy danych dostępnej pod adresem: https://praslow.ispan.edu.pl. Równocześnie zebrano dotychczas występujące skróty źródłowe i opublikowano w oddzielnym aneksie pt. Zintegrowany wykaz skrótów do tomów I-VIII, X i XI., Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] is a work which combines features of an etymological dictionary and a study on the comparative history of the Slavic languages. The aim of its authors, who based on source materials from all Slavic languages, is to reconstruct the full lexical resource of the language used by the Slavic peoples immediately before the disintegration of the Proto-Slavic language community into individual languages (c. 7th–8th century AD). The origins of the Dictionary date back to 1954, and its initiator was Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński. The first eight volumes were prepared under the auspices of the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the Department, then the Institute of Slavic Studies (Instytut Słowianoznawstwa, in 1992 renamed as Instytut Slawistyki), Polish Academy of Sciences. They were published in 1974–2001 by the Ossolineum publishing house in a print version (the electronic version is available in the RCIN repository at https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/6907). Their editor was Franciszek Sławski. After a long break, the Institute of Slavic Studies published Volume 11 of the Dictionary, which contains a part of entries beginning with the letter K: Kǫ–Ky. It was prepared under the National Programme for the Development of Humanities (NPRH, Grant No. 11H 16 0266 84) at the Kraków centre of the Institute. Edited by a team led by Mariola Jakubowicz, this volume is the first one in the series which is published in a small number of print copies and in pdf format, and is also available as a database at https://praslow.ispan.edu.pl. At the same time, all previously used source abbreviations were collected and published in a separate appendix entitled Zintegrowany wykaz skrótów do tomów I–VIII, X i XI [Integrated List of Abbreviations for Volumes 1–8, 10 and 11].

Danish Name Lexicon (“Dansk Navneleksikon”) is an ongoing project that establishes a web lexicon with Danish personal names. This first edition includes data on the meaning and origin of the most frequent first names in Denmark today. As in other countries, Danish personal names originate in many different languages and have come to Denmark in different cultural contexts and periods. Nevertheless, many names are related in terms of origin and linguistic formation. In the lexicon, we use the relationships between names and name forms to illustrate their development. At the same time, tags are added to each name and name form to characterise their linguistic origin, semantic category, etc. The article explains the data structure that utilizes the relationships between the individual names, allowing all entries about names with shared origin to share this info in the end-user interface, as well as explaining how a suitable format for editing the first edition was established, based on freeware and without substantial financing. The lexicon has been available for the public since 2021 at https://ordnet.dk/dnl, and the results of the first edition show that the innovative data structure is promising and that a continuation of the project with additional name materialwould seem feasible.