Attending the Linked Pasts workshop in Madrid was a great way to connect with this community who uses the technologies of the semantic web in geohumanities research. Both days were useful for a newcomer like me to learn about Commons-supported projects and shared challenges. I normally spend a good deal of my conference time with […]
Mediaeval Iberia’s pilot phase has come to an end but a new project has started. The LINHD team at UNED (http://linhd.uned.es/) was awarded a Pelagios microgrant for extending Pelagios Commons to the Mediaeval Iberian world in June, 2016. A brief report of the work carried out in the first months of the project, coordinated and […]
Last month Lex Berman hosted Rainer Simon and me for three days at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, to consolidate understandings from remote discussions about our Linked Places project, and to move the work forward. We made excellent progress. Coincidentally, members of the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project’s geospatial working group were meeting simultaneously […]
The LINHD team at UNED (http://linhd.uned.es/) is very happy to announce that it has been awarded one of the Pelagios microgrants for a proposal to extend Pelagios into the Mediaeval Iberian world. We will identify placenames from a very important source for Spanish Philology: the Biblioteca Digital de Textos del Español Antiguo (BIDTEA, Hispanic Seminary of […]
I’m very pleased to have been awarded, with colleagues Lex Berman (Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis) and Rainer Simon (Pelagios; Austrian Institute of Technology), a Pelagios Commons Resource Development Grant supporting a project we’ve titled Linking Linked Places. The following briefly describes the motivation for this work and the concrete products we plan to present […]
The Digital Classicist is holding an “online sprint” on Tuesday 31 May, from 16–18h BST (= 17–19 CEST = 11–13 EDT = 10–12 CDT, etc.), with the aim of adding articles to, or improving existing articles in, the wiki, on geographical or geospatial datasets, projects, tools, methodologies and other related questions. All of you who are working […]
The PastPlace project is working to create a global historical gazetteer using Wikidata as a spine, to which we aim to add (a) a user interface more appropriate to a gazetteer than that provided by Wikidata and (b) additional attestations of place names taken from historical sources. What I could say much about but won’t: […]
There’s been quite a loooong silence on this blog about our tool development activities. Not that we’ve been idle. Far from it: we’ve been as busy as ever in our top-secret underground hideaway. Those of you following us on twitter may have noticed the occasional screenshot or info-bite leaking out. But today we’re finally ready to […]
It turns out The Bee Gees were right. We’ve wrapped up work (for now) on Greek early geographic documents and the experience has made it clear that time, place and motion do indeed feature heavily. First a few statistics. Our objective – as always – has been to identify sources for as many documents as […]
The answer to this famous nursery rhyme – “three score and ten”, i.e. 70 km – seems outrageously high for a day’s journey, no matter “if your heels are [exceptionally] nimble and light”. (Even swift-footed Achilles would struggle to cover 70 km in day!) So, what are we to make of it? How can we […]