Pelagios OU Open Access Week 2015
Transcript of Pelagios OU Open Access Week 2015
Pelagios : enabling discoverability, enriching context, promoting reuse
Elton Barker (The Open University)
http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.ukTwitter: @Pelagiosproject
20 October 2015 | Open Access Week: Open Data, Library Services, Library Seminar Room 1
Linking together the places of our past through the documents
that refer to them
InscriptionsTexts
ArchaeologicalFinds
MuseumObjects
ArchaeologicalSites
The Challenge of Discovery | Linking online data, openly
45+ partners from 10 countriesca. 1,000,000+ annotations
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Data aggregation X
Standard data representation X
MEGA search portal X
Connectivity through common references rather than a common schema
What Pelagios isn’t | One ring to rule them all
The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
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pleiades:579885(Athenae)
pleiades:570685(Sparta)
Pleiades
AncientWorldResources
Pelagios
Pelagios network | Interlinking different knowledge communities
Towards a digital scholarship | Bottomless Maps
Towards a digital scholarship | Future Footnotes
Pelagios 3 | Annotation (texts and maps), gazetteer interoperability
Making annotation easy | developing a Web-based Open Source tool
http://pelagios.org/recogito/
Text Annotation (The “Target”) | Marking places in texts
Image Annotation (The “Target”) | Marking toponyms on maps
Georesolution (The “Body”) | Matching places to the gazetteer(s)
Toponym detail | Finding the right gazetteer match
Pelagios 3 outcomes | Browser-based maps of geographic data
Pelagios 3 outcomes | Download CSV GIS to query the data
Pelagios 3 outcomes | Overlaying verified toponymy with original
The Pelagios API v.3 | A “google” style search with bells
API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + filtering results
http://pelagios.org/peripleo/map
API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + exploring the area
PleiadesPastPlaceGetty ThesauriPeriodOChronOntologyCanonical Text ServicesSENSCHALSNAPOCRE…
Google Ancient Places (OU, Soton)Perseus Digital Library (Tufts)Arachne (Cologne)SPQR (King's College, London)Digital Memory Engineering (AIT)Open Context (UC Berkeley)CLAROS (Oxford)PtolemyMachine (Holy Cross)Ure Museum (Reading)FastiOnline (AIAC)Nomisma (ANS)Regnum Francorum OnlinePapyri.info (ISAW/NYU)Ports AntiquesOracc (U. Penn.)Meketre (Vienna)OCRE (ANS/ISAW)SquinchpixORBIS (Stanford)MJBC (Cambridge)ISAW Papers (ISAW)Totenbuch (Bonn/Cologne)PAS (The British Museum)SAWS (KCL/Uppsala/Stockholm/Vienna)Trismegistos (K. U. Leuven)AWMC (Chapel Hill)Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World DM Project (Drew)Ancient History EncyclopediaDickinson College CommentariesEdinburgh Geoparser (Edinburgh)EDH (Heidelberg)EAGLELGPN (Oxford)... 50+ projects
The Digital Ecosystem | Linking places, people, time…| An Emerging Ecosystem
Resource CuratorsConcept Schemes
Infrastructure & Support
Linked Pasts – 20th & 21st July @KCL
Blog: http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.ukTwitter: @PelagiosprojectAnnotation: http://pelagios.org/recogito/Search: http://pelagios.org/peripleo/mapCode: https://github.com/pelagios
Thanks to JISC, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AHRC, the Onassis Foundation, and all our partners
Thank you for your attention!
Pelagios are:Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open UniversityLeif Isaksen, Dept. of History, University of SouthamptonRainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology, ViennaPau de Soto Cañamares, Institute of Catalan Studies, Barcelona