In our first report we declared our aim to annotate place names in the first 50 chapters of the Chronicle of King Galāwdewos. We have managed to placeName elements in the TEI-XML edition of the entire Chronicle, and it was a very interesting task on which we are going to report now. Mapping marked places in […]
This post originally appeared on the Stoa Consortium blog at http://www.stoa.org/archives/2445. Participants: Orla Murphy, Sarah Middle, Simona Stoyanova, Núria Garcia Casacuberta Report: https://github.com/EpiDoc/OEDUc/wiki/EDH-and-Pelagios-NER The EDH and Pelagios NER working group was part of the Open Epigraphic Data Unconference held on 15 May 2017. Our aim was to use Named Entity Recognition (NER) on the text […]
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 […]
On 15-16 December 2016, I attended the Second International Linked Pasts conference, hosted by UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) in Madrid, and organised by the Pelagios team. This was the first international conference I have attended that has focused specifically on the application of Linked Data to research topics in the Humanities, and […]
Mediaeval Iberia’s pilot phase has come to an end but a new project has started. The LINHD team at UNED (http://linhd.uned.es/) was awarded a Pelagios microgrant for extending Pelagios Commons to the Mediaeval Iberian world in June, 2016. A brief report of the work carried out in the first months of the project, coordinated and […]
This post was first posted on April 1st, though it is no prank at all, on Pelagios Commons. This is an almost final post for what we now refer to the Kima phase 1, the phase which was funded by the Pelagios research grant and was presented here by the two previous posts, the introductory […]
As mentioned in the previous post, Georeferencing our places, which we expected to be a simple script run and some tweaking of the data, turned out to be a more complex and challenging mission, but with a lesson and a bonus way of validating our work. Approaching the task of georeferencing our places, we first […]
This is an almost final post for what we now refer to the Kima phase 1, the phase which was funded by the Pelagios research grant and was presented here by the two previous posts, the introductory and the intermediate report. The third and recent stage of our work on Kima is, as we now […]
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 […]
On December 15, 2016 I presented work on a project titled Linked Places at the Linked Pasts meeting in Madrid, on behalf of my collaborators Lex Berman and Rainer Simon, This second phase of Linked Pasts was generously supported in part by a Pelagios Commons Resource Development Grant, The following final report replicates a 10 December […]