This is a re-blog of a post which first appeared on the Pilgrim Libraries blog. The author, Dr Marianne O’Doherty, is Associate Professor in English, University of Southampton, UK and a member of the Pilgrim Libraries Project Network. She’s also a former Pelagios Commons Committee Member. Thanks to both the Pilgrim Libraries Project and Marianne for […]
Pelagios Commons is proud to announce that two of our initiatives have been nominated in separate categories at the 2016 Digital Humanities Awards, the DH Oscars. Recogito is in the running for the award for best DH Tool, and Peripleo for best DH Data Visualisation. While there are no prizes for these awards, they’re a […]
The Cross-cultural AfterLife of Classical Sites (CALCS) project has come to the end of its pilot phase. We introduced the project, and discussed its further development on this blog, and we’re now delighted to share our latest updates, after CALCS was presented to the Linked Pasts II conference in Madrid (14-16 December 2016) and the Digital […]
With not so fashionable delay, I am reporting now on the second phase of our work. This phase started in October, when in the midst of the Jewish holiday deluge, our data whiz, Glauco Mantegari, came to Jerusalem to work with us on KIMA, the Hebrew Gazetteer. PLACES Having no center or institution to call […]
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 […]
Half-way through our work on CALCS, we’re ready to discuss what we’ve been up to so far and what are our next steps. Before starting to collect place-names, we had to do some preliminary work that, hopefully, can be reused by other members of the Pelagios Commons community. Setting up the machine If you’re reading […]
Note: the ‘Learn More’ link on recogito.pelagios.org temporarily redirects here, while we’re still working on an introductory tutorial for Recogito. Since around February, we’ve been working behind the scenes on a new version of our annotation tool Recogito. For those who haven’t heard about it yet: Recogito is a Web application we developed for the […]
With thanks to the Pelagios Commons team and especially the expert and generous SIG chairs, we’re happy to announce the CALCS Project has been funded with a small development grant. The aim of this project—which serves as a pilot for a much larger investigation into the afterlives of sites we think of as classical—is to […]
After a period of some behind-the-scenes changes at Pelagios HQ (with institutional moves to Lancaster University and IEC and a new programmer extraordinaire in the form of Andrew Lindley, AIT) we’re delighted to tell you our exciting news. A new phase (technically, ‘Pelagios 6’) has begun and this time it’s all about you. The last couple of […]
This post has been written by first-year students of the master “Humanités classiques et humanités numériques“. We are French students in the master “Classical Humanities and Digital Humanities” at Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense University. One of our courses is a short collaborative project and we decided to contribute to Pelagios. The interdisciplinary and contributive nature […]