As was detailed in the interim report, the chosen source for toponym extraction were the so-called ‘Registers of Important Affairs’ (mühimme defterleri). The particular sources are composed of summaries of imperial orders sent to the provinces: as a result they are an extremely valuable source for the purposes of the present exercise since they […]
Introduction Linked Open Data is a powerful tool for navigating through the complexity of the inherently multifaceted reality of archaeological sites, which results from the intersections of space, materiality, language, visual culture, history, text, and so on. However, LOD also poses the challenge of how to manage such complexity in a meaningful way. In this […]
We’re delighted to be able to share the news that Pelagios has been awarded a DARIAH Theme Funding award for 2018/19. DARIAH are an EU-funded infrastructure which aims to support arts and humanities scholars working with computational methods in their teaching and research. This year’s funding call was focused on the chronic problem of […]
From the very beginning, Itiner-e is working to create the first Historical Roads Gazetteer which will support the creation of linked open road datasets. Building a new type of gazetteer is like walking down a long and windy path, with many obstacles on the way and some important places to visit and reflect. Pelagios Commons gave […]
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 […]
For one night every year, research centres around Berlin throw open their doors for Der Lange Nacht Der Wissenschaften, or Long Night of the Sciences. From 5pm until midnight, Berliners can visit the labs, offices, field research outposts, museums, workshops and libraries where research in the city takes place. This year, on what ended up being […]
Digital Gazetteers for Cities Digital gazetteers have become an established resource and the backbone of many digital humanities projects. They enable, among other things, georeferencing of places in historical and contemporary documents, linkage of resources that share geographical references, and visualisation of pattern and trends from spatial perspectives. Currently, the majority of digital gazetteers tend […]
We, Matteo Romanello and Hugh Cayless, are happy to introduce our Pelagios-sponsored working group Linked Texts. This WG aims to increase the presence and coverage of text-related data within the Graph of Ancient World data. We aim to consolidate ways of minting resolvable URIs for texts and text passages by harvesting existing text repositories […]
Introducing Itiner-e. The Gazetteer of Roads Greetings from Barcelona. Our team composed of Pau de Soto, Tom Brughmans, Josep Guitart and Santiago Muxach very proud to write the first introductory blogpost about our project: the first gazetteer of historical roads, integrated in the Pelagios Commons Universe. Firstly, we want to thank Pelagios Commons for awarding […]
Having announced our 2018 Working Groups yesterday, today we are delighted to announce the new awardees of the Resource Development Grants. It was a fierce competition (we received 17 excellent applications), judging was difficult, and we would love to have funded more. But we are really excited to be able to support the following four: LatAm: […]
