Interim Report for the ‘Ottoman Recogito’ (OttoRec) project. In our first meeting back in June 2018, the students and I as a group discussed what kinds of Ottoman sources we could use in Recogito. Our initial idea was to use the Istanbul sharia court registers, which, rich in economic and social history data, could be […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is the first post in a series of introductory blogs from the 2017 Resource Development Grant recipients. More posts from our project will be uploaded over the next months. The Humanidades Digitales CAICYT (https://hdcaicyt.github.io/) team from CONICET, Argentina, is very pleased to announce that it will be extending Pelagios Commons to the South American […]
Por Ana Rodríguez Pérez (UNED) Descubriendo las Humanidades digitales: Pelagios Commons A lo largo de mis estudios en el Grado en Lengua y literatura españolas nunca antes había oído hablar de la existencia de las Humanidades Digitales como nuevo campo de investigación interdisciplinar, ni conocía las posibilidades que ofrecía hasta que la profesora Clara Isabel […]
Por Romina De León[1] Si a un estudiante de la carrera de Historia de Latinoamérica, que aún no haya ahondado dentro de los ámbitos de la investigación, se le comunica que existe un recurso gratuito y en línea que le permite georreferenciar textos a mapas, hacer anotaciones, y además etiquetar personas y hechos, creería que es […]
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 […]
