[updated to reflect completion]

In December 2017 The Linked Pasts Working Group of Pelagios Commons (LPWG) completed a white paper, “From Linking Places to a Linked Pasts Network.” [PDF]

The paper reports on our activity enumerating user requirements for a future Linked Pasts technical infrastructure, and makes some interim recommendations: for…[Read more]

Dear all,

we would like to encode polygons as precise as possible in our data for ancient regions, kingdoms, areas occupied by ethnic groups in Ethiopia. Some boundaries are well known, especially if they correspond to coasts or rivers. some are very blurred.

How to draw these polygons easily and get the coordinates of the polygon to store in…[Read more]

Dear all,

not knowing if the people in this group are the same, I repeat some intro from a post to the time WG. We are starting to work on encoding some geo data in ethiopian texts thanks to a resource development grant from pelagios.

We start from pretty much nothing, and we want to record attestations of ancient places in an ethiopian c…[Read more]

If you’re involved in Pelagios Commons at all, we’re pretty sure you have a lot of opinions. About your discipline. About the digital humanities. About semantic annotation. About how all these things relate to each other.

And if you’re involved in Pelagios Commons at all, we’re also pretty sure those opinions are well-developed. Richly nuanced…[Read more]

A common problem for Pelagios Commons community members is the lack of research tools adapted for non-English languages. When we hope to identify and locate places mentioned in texts written in French, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, etc., existing resources come up short. Whether because Named Entity Recognition is usually designed for English…[Read more]

Dear Linked Pasts members

Due to overwhelming community demand (you are a persistent bunch) we’ve decided to extend the deadline for the Resource Development Grant proposals to April 23, 2017.

The same application guidelines apply – you can see them here.

We look forward to seeing all the proposals.

For any questions or queries, please email < …[Read more]

Hello Linked Past-ers

Just a reminder that applications for the 2017 Resource Development Grants closes on April 9th, so don’t get caught out…

For details of the call for proposals, and how to apply, have a look at this post, and feel free to ask any questions of the Investigative Team via email.

Lats year we received more proposals than we…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

I’m thinking of applying for the grants this year, with a proposal to provide algorithms for disambiguation of place names and (historical) time periods.

This was the topic of my PhD, where I have worked in these algorithms in the context of Europeana, where it resulted in a tool (called the EuropeanaConnect Geoparser). This tool…[Read more]

The Linked Pasts and Time Working Groups are soliciting feedback from all Commons members, and others with an interest, on the topic of events and event modeling. We have published a Pelagios Commons blog post explaining our motivation and posing some specific questions. Please have a look and weigh in with comments.