From the very beginning, Itiner-e is working to create the first Historical Roads Gazetteer which will support the creation of linked open road datasets. Building a new type of gazetteer is like walking down a long and windy path, with many obstacles on the way and some important places to visit and reflect. Pelagios Commons gave […]
In order to achieve efficient place name reconciliation between unannotated text on the one hand, and the Syriaca gazetteer on the other, our research group has further experimented with NLP tools for this purpose. As in most languages, place names give rise to variation of writing to refer to these places. Syriac, being a semitic […]
For one night every year, research centres around Berlin throw open their doors for Der Lange Nacht Der Wissenschaften, or Long Night of the Sciences. From 5pm until midnight, Berliners can visit the labs, offices, field research outposts, museums, workshops and libraries where research in the city takes place. This year, on what ended up being […]
Digital Gazetteers for Cities Digital gazetteers have become an established resource and the backbone of many digital humanities projects. They enable, among other things, georeferencing of places in historical and contemporary documents, linkage of resources that share geographical references, and visualisation of pattern and trends from spatial perspectives. Currently, the majority of digital gazetteers tend […]
Screenshot, The Colonial Frontiers Massacre Project, copyright the University of Newcastle https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/ We would like to thank Pelagios for sponsoring our working group, LAMLOD. This Working Group aims to increase collaboration and movement towards Linked Open Data and Pelagios related tools in the Digital Humanities. We have three main aims To help Digital Humanities projects […]
Fate, free will, and ancient geography The Book of the Laws of the Countries (BLC), ascribed to the 2nd-century Syriac author and philosopher Bardaisan, is the earliest non-translated Syriac text of substantial size. It contains a highly interesting philosophical dialogue on nature, fate and free will. In the argument for human free will against […]
Introducing Itiner-e. The Gazetteer of Roads Greetings from Barcelona. Our team composed of Pau de Soto, Tom Brughmans, Josep Guitart and Santiago Muxach very proud to write the first introductory blogpost about our project: the first gazetteer of historical roads, integrated in the Pelagios Commons Universe. Firstly, we want to thank Pelagios Commons for awarding […]
In our first report we declared our aim to annotate place names in the first 50 chapters of the Chronicle of King Galāwdewos. We have managed to placeName elements in the TEI-XML edition of the entire Chronicle, and it was a very interesting task on which we are going to report now. Mapping marked places in […]
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 […]
