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 […]
Questions and answers encountered during the first three months of annotating place references in Croatian Latin texts.
Last month Lex Berman hosted Rainer Simon and me for three days at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, to consolidate understandings from remote discussions about our Linked Places project, and to move the work forward. We made excellent progress. Coincidentally, members of the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project’s geospatial working group were meeting simultaneously […]
The LINHD team at UNED (http://linhd.uned.es/) is very happy to announce that it has been awarded one of the Pelagios microgrants for a proposal to extend Pelagios into the Mediaeval Iberian world. We will identify placenames from a very important source for Spanish Philology: the Biblioteca Digital de Textos del Español Antiguo (BIDTEA, Hispanic Seminary of […]
Half-way through our work on CALCS, we’re ready to discuss what we’ve been up to so far and what are our next steps. Before starting to collect place-names, we had to do some preliminary work that, hopefully, can be reused by other members of the Pelagios Commons community. Setting up the machine If you’re reading […]