It has been a rocky time for the KIMA team. While working on KIMA02 we were also busy presenting KIMA in the Autumn season: discussing “Place, Space and Conceptual Change: a view from language” in the 20th International Conference of Conceptual History in Oslo, showing off to the Jewish studies community at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies , where we […]
Las Humanidades Digitales (HD) son un campo científico emergente en una gran parte de los países de América Latina. No obstante, uno de los grandes problemas que enfrentan a la hora de posicionarse como práctica académica es la debilidad y obsolescencia de las infraestructuras tecnológicas y la necesidad de capacitación de investigadores e interesados en […]
Digital Humanities are an emerging scientific field in a large part of Latin America. However, one of the major problems researches face when trying to establish DH as an academic practice is the weakness and obsolescence of Latin American digital infrastructures and the need for training. Pelagios Commons offers to the DH community online tools […]
The Pelagios Resource Development Grant of the first round has enabled us to launch the project Kima, a Hebrew script, attestation-based historical gazetteer. The resulting resource was a promising database, which was, however, still unbalanced and required more work in order to make it usable as an encompassing, multipurpose gazetteer. We were thrilled, then, to hear that […]
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 […]
Some interesting historical places in Ethiopia from the Chronicle of Galāwdewos by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene and Pietro Maria Liuzzo In the second report, we have described how we have marked up all the places attested in the Chronicle of Galawdewos and how they have been represented according to the chronology and activities of the king. Finally, in […]
We, Johan Åhlfeldt, Ida Storm and Petr Pridal, are happy to introduce our Pelagios grant sponsored project and want to start by expressing our thanks for the opportunity. This project aims at creating a tiled vector map to replace the current raster tiles of the Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (DARE), https://dare.ht.lu.se. The […]
This is the first post in a series of introductory blogs from the 2017 Resource Development Grant recipients. More posts from the other projects will be uploaded over the coming weeks. We are pleased to announce that the project entitled “Annotation of place names in the Chronicle of King Gälawdewos” a sister project of the […]