Founded in 2011 and launched as an Open Association in 2019, Pelagios is community of practice of individuals, projects and organisations interested in producing, sharing, and making use of historical information online. We champion a simple, lightweight method of linking data through the web annotation of common references to places, people and time periods. Through our bottom-up infrastructure, we co-create open-source tools that support standards-based annotation, registry and visualisation of resources.
Pelagios is a free and open network of equal and interdependent Partners. These Partners represent a range of work being carried out across the humanities (history, language and literary studies, archaeology, etc.), cultural heritage (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), and the creative industries (tourism, software development, etc.).
To maximise our efforts in helping to evolve a Linked Open Data ecosystem of historical data, Pelagios Partners:
Each of our Working Groups are run by two Coordinators. Coordinators assemble once a month for a General Business Meeting. Organising that meeting, and managing the network more generally, are three Officers: a Chair, a General Secretary, and a Partnership Secretary (responsible for onboarding new Partners). All positions are determined by election and are open to any Partner.
The current office holders are:
