Pelagios : enabling discoverability, enriching context, promoting reuse

 

Elton Barker (The Open University)

http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.ukTwitter: @Pelagiosproject

20 October 2015 | Open Access Week: Open Data, Library Services, Library Seminar Room 1

Linking together the places of our past through the documents

that refer to them

InscriptionsTexts

ArchaeologicalFinds

MuseumObjects

ArchaeologicalSites

The Challenge of Discovery | Linking online 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

The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!

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pleiades:579885(Athenae)

pleiades:570685(Sparta)

Pleiades

AncientWorldResources

Pelagios

Pelagios network | Interlinking different knowledge communities

Towards a digital scholarship | Bottomless Maps

Towards a digital scholarship | Future Footnotes

Pelagios 3 | Annotation (texts and maps), gazetteer interoperability

Making annotation easy | developing a Web-based Open Source tool

http://pelagios.org/recogito/

Text Annotation (The “Target”) | Marking places in texts

Image Annotation (The “Target”) | Marking toponyms on maps

Georesolution (The “Body”) | Matching places to the gazetteer(s)

Toponym detail | Finding the right gazetteer match

Pelagios 3 outcomes | Browser-based maps of geographic data

Pelagios 3 outcomes | Download CSV GIS to query the data

Pelagios 3 outcomes | Overlaying verified toponymy with original

The Pelagios API v.3 | A “google” style search with bells

API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + filtering results

http://pelagios.org/peripleo/map

API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + exploring the area

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)... 50+ projects

The Digital Ecosystem | Linking places, people, time…| An Emerging Ecosystem

Resource CuratorsConcept Schemes

Infrastructure & Support

Linked Pasts – 20th & 21st July @KCL

Blog: http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.ukTwitter: @PelagiosprojectAnnotation: http://pelagios.org/recogito/Search: http://pelagios.org/peripleo/mapCode: https://github.com/pelagios

Thanks to JISC, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AHRC, the Onassis Foundation, and all our partners

Thank you for your attention!

Pelagios are:Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open UniversityLeif Isaksen, Dept. of History, University of SouthamptonRainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology, ViennaPau de Soto Cañamares, Institute of Catalan Studies, Barcelona