Pelagios Commons
What is Pelagios Commons?
Pelagios Commons is a community & infrastructure for Linked Open Geodata in the Humanities.
What does that mean exactly? Linked Open Data is an old idea that is slowly coming of age. Essentially Linked Data is a way of connecting online resources that have something in common. To some extent this occurs already with standard HTML hyperlinks, but these provide only unilateral (one-directional) links between specific documents. The technologies behind Linked Open Data allow us to introduce meta-links that create multi-lateral connections between clusters of content related to a specific concept. In our case that concept is geographic (hence geodata): Pelagios links historical materials through their common reference to particular places.
In what way is it a community?
The Web is just as much a human phenomenon as a technical one. Any initiative that proposes to link resources together is inherently social in nature. If we are to form healthy ecologies of dynamically interacting Web resources, we must collaborate to establish processes which create long-lasting mutual benefit. Pelagios Commons offers online forums and real world events which allow anyone with an interest in connecting the past together to get involved. No technical experience is required (although techies are extremely welcome too!). Pelagios Commons is also part of a wider ecosystem of projects dedicated to interlinking online resources about the past.
In what way is it an infrastructure?
Like the Web, Linked Open Data should be decentralised. That is, everyone contributes something, and there is no ‘master’ system which controls everything behind the scenes. Nevertheless, to help everything play together nicely, we need tools and services which help people create links and make use of them. Pelagios Commons focuses on addressing current process bottle-necks, rather than building an end-to-end product. Our contributions include the following freely available resources:
Recogito, a tool that makes it easy to identify, record and export as Linked Open Data the places referred to in historical texts, maps and tables; Peripleo, a search service that allows you to find community-curated content related to specific places; Pelagios Map Tiles, a set of resources that allow you to project data onto dynamic maps dedicated to different historical periods.
Publications
- Simon, R., Barker, E., Isaksen, L.and de Soto Cañamares, P. 2017. Linked Data Annotation Without the Pointy Brackets: Introducing Recogito 2. Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. Volume 13, Issue 1, 2017-05-11.
- Simon, R., Isaksen, L., Barker, E. and de Soto Cañamares, P. Forthcoming. The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project. In Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers. Berman, Mostern, & Southall, (Eds.) Indiana University Press.
- Simon, R., Isaksen, L., Barker, E. and de Soto Cañamares, P. 2016. Peripleo: a Tool for Exploring Heterogenous Data through the Dimensions of Space and Time. Code4Lib Issue 31, 2016-01-28.
- Simon, R., Barker, E., Isaksen, L. and de Soto Cañamares, P. 2015. Linking Early Geospatial Documents, One Place at a Time: Annotation of Geographic Documents with Recogito. In e-Perimetron. Vol.10, No.2 (2015), pp. 49-59. ISSN 1790-3769.
- Simon, R., Pilgerstorfer, P., Isaksen, L. and Barker, E. 2014. Towards Semi-Automatic Annotation of Toponyms on Old Maps. In e-Perimetron. Vol. 9, No.3 (2014), pp. 105-128. ISSN 1790-3769.
- Simon, R., Barker, E., de Soto, P. and Isaksen, L. 2014. Pelagios. In ISAW Papers 7.27.
- Isaksen, L., Barker, E. Simon, R., de Soto, P. 2014. Pelagios and the Emerging Graph of Ancient World Data. In WebSci’14 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Web Science, 22-26 June 2014, Bloomington, IN, USA, pp. 197-201.
- Kiesling, J. B. and Isaksen, L. 2014. Stadiasmus of the Great Sea, Anonymous, English Translation.
- Simon, R., Barker, E. and Isaksen, L. 2012. Exploring Pelagios: a visual browser for geo-tagged datasets. In: Agirre et al. (eds.), International Workshop on Supporting Users’ Exploration of Digital Libraries. Cyprus, 29-34
Online Presentations
- de Soto, P., Barker, E., Isaksen, L., Simon, R. & Lindley, A. 2016. Posibilidades de los Linked Data para el análisis de textos y especialmente para la visualización geográfica: el caso del proyecto Pelagios. Tecnologías digitales aplicadas al estudio de la poesía. LINHD Curso de Verano 2016. [Password: LINHD2016]
- Simon, R., Lindley, A., Isaksen, L., Barker, E. & de Soto, P. 2016. Pelagios. Semantic Annotation of Historical Place References in Digital Resources. Lunchtime Lectures 2016, University of Graz
- Isaksen, L., Barker, E., Lindley, A. Rainer, S. & De Soto, P. 2016. Pelagios Commons: Decentralizing the Web of historical data. CAA Oslo 2016.
- Isaksen, L., Barker, E., Simon, R. & de Soto Cañamares, P. 2015. Pelagios & Recogito. An anotation Platform for Joining a Linked Data World. Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar, KCL.
- Simon, R., Isaksen, L. de Soto, P. & Barker, E. 2015. Linking Data About the Past Through Geography. Pelagios, Peripleo & Recogito. Semantic Web in Libraries, Hamburg 2015. [Presentation – Pdf]
- Barker, E., Bouzarovski, S., Isaksen, L. & Pelling, C. 2015. Mapping Herodotus: countercartography, networks and bottomless maps. Digital Classics Ancient History Seminar, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
- Barker, E. 2014. Digital Approaches for Visualizing Ancient Geography. The Center for Hellenic Studies.
- Barker, E. 2014. The Pelagios Project. CHS Essentials 2015, The Center for Hellenic Studies.
- Barker, E., Isaksen, L. & Simon, R. 2013. Enabling Discovery Online. The case of the Pelagios network for ancient places. In: Wikidata trifft Archäologie. Bibliothek des Auswärtigen Amtes 2013.
- Barker, E. 2014. Interview with Elton Barker. Digital Humanities, University of Würzburg.
- Barker, E., Byrne, K., Kansa, E., Isaksen, L. & Simon, R. 2013. There and back again. Discovering and using ancient place names in text.Digital Humanities, University of Würzburg.
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