Pelagios is a project that links ancient places mentioned in texts, inscriptions, archaeological finds, and museum objects through annotations. It involves over 45 partners from 10 countries annotating over 1 million references. The goal is to enable discovery and enrich context by connecting data through common references rather than imposing a common schema. Pelagios develops tools to make annotation easy and provides services like a search API and downloadable geospatial data to explore the links between sources. The project aims to support digital scholarship by building an ecosystem that interconnects people, places, times and more across various projects and resources.
1. Pelagios : enabling discoverability,
enriching context, promoting reuse
Elton Barker (The Open University)
http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @Pelagiosproject
20 October 2015 | Open Access Week: Open Data, Library Services, Library Seminar Room 1
2. Linking together the places of
our past through the documents
that refer to them
InscriptionsInscriptions
TextsTexts
Archaeological
Finds
Archaeological
Finds
Museum
Objects
Museum
Objects
Archaeological
Sites
Archaeological
Sites
The Challenge of Discovery | Linking online data, openly
45+ partners from 10 countries
ca. 1,000,000+ annotations
3. 3
Data aggregation X
Standard data representation X
MEGA search portal X
Connectivity through common references rather than a common schemaConnectivity through common references rather than a common schema
What Pelagios isn’t | One ring to rule them all
4. The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
4
pleiades:579885
(Athenae)
pleiades:570685
(Sparta)
18. API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + filtering results
http://pelagios.org/peripleo/map
19. API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + exploring the area
20. 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)
...
50+ projects
The Digital Ecosystem | Linking places, people,
time…
| An Emerging Ecosystem
Resource Curators
Concept Schemes
Infrastructure
& Support
Linked Pasts – 20th
& 21st
July @KCL
Linked Pasts – 20th
& 21st
July @KCL
21. Blog: http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @Pelagiosproject
Annotation: http://pelagios.org/recogito/
Search: http://pelagios.org/peripleo/map
Code: 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 University
Leif Isaksen, Dept. of History, University of Southampton
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna
Pau de Soto Cañ amares, Institute of Catalan Studies, Barcelona