Pelagios presents researchers with a fantastic set of tools for studying the world and linking texts, artifacts, and maps to historic places. However, not all the places of the past have been findable with the Pelagios set of tools. In the case of colonial Latin America, if a researcher was studying Acamuchitlan in Nueva España–or most of […]
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 […]
Introducing LatAm, a collaborative effort to produce a historical gazetteer for Latin America at the end of the eighteenth century. The Challenge Early Modern Latin America is still a relatively unexplored geography as far as digital mapping applications are concerned. It is true that some recent initiatives have begun to make inroads into this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
