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 […]
In our previous article, we wrote about the difference between raster tiles and vector tiles, http://commons.pelagios.org/2017/09/rdg-update-the-roman-empire-vector-map-project/. Now, we will be able to study the outcome. The technicalities of the process will be discussed, and the result as of now can be studied here https://klokantech.github.io/roman-empire/#3.97/45.49/6.47. The section “Display the vector tiles with style” goes over the […]
We’re excited to announce that The China Historical Geographic Information System, (CHGIS) data is now part of the public instance of Recogito! The CHGIS is a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE. It provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal […]
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 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 […]
