In our previous post we introduced what EAGLE is and what it hopes to achieve. In this post we outline briefly some particularities with our data structure that demonstrate what we are bringing to Pelagios. Most fundamentally we use the term ‘place’ as it is defined by Trismegistos Geo: this means taking ‘place’ in its […]
EAGLE—the Europeananetwork of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy—is joining Pelagios. EAGLE is itself a Best-Practice Network (BPN), co-funded through the ICT-Policy Support Programme of the European Commission, and aims to create a new online archive for epigraphy in Europe. As part of Europeana’s multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitised items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections, […]
Pelagios is all about creating connections between places and data about them. Since we are now in the process of extending our scope beyond the ancient Greco-Roman world, we have been joined by two new infrastructural partners – PastPlace and the China Historical GIS. They will provide us with records for those places that are […]
A few weeks ago we trailed that we had some exciting news and now we can finally announce it. Thanks to the generosity of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Pelagios is entering a third, even more ambitious phase. We will be extending the Pelagios approach to all early geospatial documents up to 1492 (a game-changing […]
We are happy to announce that Ancient History Encyclopedia is joining the Pelagios project. Ancient History Encyclopedia is a non-profit digital humanities company with the aim of providing reviewed ancient history information on the web. All content is submitted by volunteer historians, authors, and enthusiasts and is reviewed by our editors before being published. We […]
Parameterized route finding in ORBIS ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World has recently joined the Pelagios network, thanks to the encouragement and patient assistance of Leif, Elton and Rainer. Our initial steps were these: (a) create an API allowing a few simple RESTful queries of the ORBIS database (orbis.stanford.edu/api), (b) publish […]
The MEKETRE project seeks to systematically collect, research, and study the reliefs and paintings of Middle Kingdom tombs of Ancient Egypt. One of its main aims is to map and elaborate the development of the scenes and their content in comparison to the Old Kingdom. The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) […]
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