maphub und pelagios: anwendung von linked data in den digitalen geisteswissenschaften

Maphub und PelagiosAnwendung von Linked Data in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften

Digital Humanities Austria Tagung, ÖAW 3. Dezember 2014

Bernhard Haslhofer und Rainer Simon

MaphubSemantic Tagging on Historical Maps

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Source: Wien Museum (via Google, via http://habsburger.net)

The Elisabethbrücke connected the districts “Innere Stadt” and “Wieden”until 1897

Source: Wien Museum (via Google, via http://habsburger.net)

The Elisabethbrücke connected the districts “Innere Stadt” and “Wieden”until 1897

Source: Wien Museum (via Google, via http://habsburger.net)

Web as Literature Conference, London, 2013

Possible Benefits

• Engage people; let them tell their stories

• Collect knowledge; enhance metadata records

• Connect digitized historical maps with other Web resources (e.g., Wikipedia)

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http://maphub.github.com

Maphub Features

• Geo References + Map Overlays

• Semantic Tagging

• Multilingual Search

• W3C Open Annotation API

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Geo References + Map Overlays

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Comments + Semantic Tagging

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Semantic Tagging in Maphub

There is a DBpedia/Wikipedia URI behind each visual tag

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mediterranean_sea

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Multilingual Search

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W3C Open Annotation API

http://maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at/

annotations/1

oa:Annotation

rdf:type

oa:hasTarget

uuid:1235oa:annotator

http://maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at

oa:generator

"behas"

foaf:name

"bernhard.haslhofer@cornell.edu"

foaf:mbox"2012-07-18T02:

01:07Z"

oa:generated

"2012-07-18T02:01:07Z"

oa:annotated

uuid:4567

http://samos.mminf.univie.ac.

at/maps/raw/g3200.ct000725C.jp2

oa:SpecificResource

rdf:type

oa:hasSource uuid:2752

oa:hasSelector

ct:ContentAsTextrdf:type

image/svg

dcterms:format

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rdf:type

image/jp2

dc:format

oa:hasBody

uuid:2751

cnt:ContentAsText

rdf:type

"text/plain"

dc:format

In antiquity, the Strait of Gibraltar (which connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea) was also known by the name \"The Pillars of Hercules\". This is the reason for this inscription!

cnt:chars

dbpedia: Strait_of_Gibraltar

oax:hasSemanticTag

dbpedia: Pillars_of_Hercules

oax:hasSemanticTag

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uuid:2753

oa:hasSelector

ct:ContentAsText

rdf:type

application/wkt

dcterms:format

POLYGON((5315 5639,5444….)

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2013

PelagiosLinking  Data  about  the  Past  through  Geography

…or  any  other  online  resource  that  bears  a  relation  to  a  particular  ancient  place!

InscriptionsTexts

ArchaeologicalFinds

Museum Objects

ArchaeologicalSites

Pelagios  |  Linking  Data,  Openly

How?  |  Don’t  Unify  the  Model  –  Annotate!

http://pleiades. stoa.org/579885

http://pleiades. stoa.org/570685

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The  Essential  Ingredient  |  URI-­‐based  Gazetteers

Ancient  World  Resources

online

gazetteers

Pelagios

Pelagios  |  Connecting  Different  Knowledge  Domains

Pelagios  1  &  2  |  The  Greco-­‐Roman  World

▪ 2  year  project  (Sep  2013  –  Aug  2015)

▪ Funded  by  Andrew  W.  Mellon  Foundation  ▪ Annotation  of  geographic  documents

(maps  and  texts)  predating  1492

Traditions  ▪ Latin  ▪ Greek  &  Byzantine  ▪ Christian  Tradition

▪ Portolan  charts  &  portolanos  ▪ Islamic  Tradition

▪ Chinese  Tradition

Pelagios  3  |  Early  Geospatial  Documents

Pelagios  3  |  New  (and  Old)  Partners

Pelagios  3  |  Geo-­‐Annotation  with  Recogito

Pelagios  3  |  Geo-­‐Annotation  with  Recogito

Pelagios  3  |  Geo-­‐Annotation  with  Recogito

Pelagios  3  |  Geo-­‐Annotation  with  Recogito  

New  in  Recogito  |  Maps  &  Image  Annotation  

Places

Pelagios People

SNAP

Periods  &  Events

PeriodO,  ChronOntology

References

Canonical TextServices

Classification  Schemes

OCRE,  SENESCHAL

Trends  |  The  Concept  Scheme  Ecosystem  

OHA  |  Recogito  in  Action  @  Heidelberg  

▪ 2.650  toponym  identifications  in  text

▪ 2.500  toponym  identifications  on  maps

▪ 830  map  transcriptions

▪ 140  gazetteer  resolutions    ▪ 490  other  actions,  such  as  corrections,

deletions  or  comments

2014

http://pelagios-­‐project.blogspot.com

http://pelagios.org/recogito

@Pelagiosproject

Grateful  acknowledgement  to  AHRC,    Google,  JISC,   The  Andrew  W.  Mellon  Foundation,  the  DM2Eproject  and all  Pelagios  partners

Interested in Open Data…(and Digital Humanities)?

http://okfn.at/arbeitsgruppen/arbeitsgruppe-open-glam/

http://okfn.at/partner-werden/

Questions?

http://maphub.github.io

bernhard.haslhofer@ait.ac.at@bhaslhofer

http://pelagios-project.blogspot.comhttp://pelagios.org/recogito

@Pelagiosproject

rainer.simon@ait.ac.at@aboutgeo