the herodotus encoded space-text-imaging...
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25 February URCEL Seminar, Lancaster University
Finding the Geography in History
Leif Isaksen, Lancaster University
Elton Barker, The Open University
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology
Pau de Soto, Institute of Catalan Studies
http://pelagios.org
@Pelagiosproject
Pelagios Commons
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Web technologies | The Narrative Timeline
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GapVis | The Reading View
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GapVis | The Snapshot
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GapVis | The Place View
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What is Pelagios?
A Decentralised
Community & Infrastructure
for Linked Open Geodata in the Humanities
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Linking together the places of our past through the documents
that refer to them
Inscriptions
Texts
ArchaeologicalFinds
MuseumObjects
ArchaeologicalSites
Pelagios | Linking data, openly
45+ partners from 10 countriesca. 1,000,000+ annotations
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Data aggregation X
Standard data representation X
MEGA search portal X
Connectivity through common references rather than a common schema
What Pelagios isn’t | One ring to rule them all
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The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
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Pleiades
AncientWorldResources
Pelagios
Pelagios network | Interlinking different knowledge communities
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Pelagios 3 | Annotating Early Geospatial Documents
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Recogito | An Annotation Toolkit for joining the linked data world
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Text Annotation | Marking toponyms in texts (The “Target”)
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Image Annotation | Marking toponyms on maps (The “Target”)
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Georesolution | Matching the toponyms to gazetteers (The “Body”)
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Toponym detail | Finding the right gazetteer match
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Aligning gazetteers | Bringing Pandektis into the Pelagios ecology
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Pelagios 3 outcomes | Browser-based maps of geographic data
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Pelagios 3 outcomes | Download CSV GIS to query the data
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Pelagios 3 outcomes | Overlaying verified toponymy with original
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Peutinger Table Guidonis GeographicaRavenna Cosmography
Nivirgitab Nivergi Nivergi
Simnana Simadana Simadana
Tvbactis Mvn Thubactis Thubactis
Casa Rimoniana Rastitiana Rusticiana
Adcisternas Cisternas Cisternas
Nalad(vs?) Nadalus Nadalus
Dissio Aqva Amara Dision Dision
Chosol Onusol Onusol
Mvsvla Musol Mulsol
Ad ficvm Ficum Ficum
Pretorivm Praetorium Praetorium
Pvtea nig Putea nigra Putea nigra
Macomadase l(orvm) Macitapades maiores Macumades maiores
Zvre Zures Zaures
Adspelvncas Speluncas Speluncas
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Scholarly research| Filling the Blanks
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Towards a digital scholarship | Bottomless Maps
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Towards a digital scholarship | Future Footnotes
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The Pelagios API v.3 | A “google” style search with bells
http://pelagios.org/api-v3
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API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by place
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API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object
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API v.3 query ‘Peripleo’) | Faceted browsing (by category)
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API v.3 query | Compare the geographical footprints of traditions
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API v.3 query | The Pelagios network of different traditions
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ca. 15,000 annotation edits!
Building a Community| The SEA CHANGE Award
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PleiadesPastPlaceGetty ThesauriPeriodOChronOntologyCanonical Text ServicesSENSCHALSNAPOCRE…
Google Ancient Places (OU, Soton)Perseus Digital Library (Tufts)Arachne (Cologne)SPQR (King's College, London)Digital Memory Engineering (AIT)Open Context (UC Berkeley)CLAROS (Oxford)PtolemyMachine (Holy Cross)Ure Museum (Reading)FastiOnline (AIAC)Nomisma (ANS)Regnum Francorum OnlinePapyri.info (ISAW/NYU)Ports AntiquesOracc (U. Penn.)Meketre (Vienna)OCRE (ANS/ISAW)SquinchpixORBIS (Stanford)MJBC (Cambridge)ISAW Papers (ISAW)Totenbuch (Bonn/Cologne)PAS (The British Museum)SAWS (KCL/Uppsala/Stockholm/Vienna)Trismegistos (K. U. Leuven)AWMC (Chapel Hill)Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World DM Project (Drew)Ancient History EncyclopediaDickinson College CommentariesEdinburgh Geoparser (Edinburgh)EDH (Heidelberg)EAGLELGPN (Oxford)...
Linked Pasts| An Emerging Ecosystem
Resource CuratorsConcept Schemes
Infrastructure & Support
PelagiosSNAPOpen AnnotationBritish Library
PerseidsShared CanvasHypothes.is…
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Pelagios 6 | Pelagios Commons
Decentralising Pelagios in 3 ways:
Technical:
• Recogito as software and open service
• Integrating Peripleo with other services
Social:
• 10 Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Overall management devolved to Pelagios Commons
Committee
Sustainability:
• Long term financial and governance planning
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Website and blog: http://pelagios.org
Twitter: @Pelagiosproject
Thanks to JISC, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AHRC, and all our partners
Thank you for your attention!