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Pelagios Commons 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

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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

  • ur past through the documents

that refer to them

Inscriptions Texts Archaeological Finds Museum Objects Archaeological Sites Pelagios | Linking data, openly

45+ partners from 10 countries

  • ca. 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 Ancient World Resources 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 Geographica Ravenna 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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Pleiades PastPlace Getty Thesauri PeriodO ChronOntology Canonical Text Services SENSCHAL SNAP OCRE …

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 Online Papyri.info (ISAW/NYU) Ports Antiques Oracc (U. Penn.) Meketre (Vienna) OCRE (ANS/ISAW) Squinchpix ORBIS (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 Encyclopedia Dickinson College Commentaries Edinburgh Geoparser (Edinburgh) EDH (Heidelberg) EAGLE LGPN (Oxford) ...

Linked Pasts| An Emerging Ecosystem Resource Curators Concept Schemes Infrastructure & Support

Pelagios SNAP Open Annotation British Library Perseids Shared Canvas Hypothes.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!