Activities —

Registry

Establishes services for registering and discovering linked data collections for places

See our Activity Charter here

Activity Co-ordinators

Leif Isaksen

Pascal Belouin

Get in touch: registry@pelagios.org

Annotating WWII testimonies

In the EviDENce project, researchers at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Humanities Cluster’s Digital Humanities Lab work with historians and eScience engineers to investigate how the perception of the concept of ‘violence’ changes over time through eyewitness reports and ego-documents (ego documents are texts in which the personal life and experiences of the author play an important and central role such as diaries, autobiographies and memoirs). In the first year of the project, they focused on transcribed WWII eyewitness interviews and we investigated how suitable state-of-the-art language technology pipelines are for the purposes of extracting relevant information from these interview texts. Read more about the project here

Partner Projects

MANTO

Manto is an initiative to model Greek myth and its impact on the Mediterranean.

AUO Resources as Pelagios GIF

Using data from the Vision of Britain project to generate Pelagios Gazetteer Interconnection Format-compatible RDF.

Beta maṣāḥǝft Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Creating and linking resources relating to Ge’ez manuscripts and literature at the University of Hamburg.

Framework for Annotation Interoperability

Working to define an interoperable system for visualization and annotation of texts and images.

Itiner-e

A gazetteer of Roman roads in the Iberian peninsula to support the creation of linked open road datasets.

Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies

SNAP:DRGN is building a virtual authority list for ancient people through Linked Data collection of common information from many collaborating projects. The graph will provide: 1. identifiers for all persons who appear in one or more corpora and catalogues; 2. gold standard normalization data for parsing and proofing tools; 3. visualization of ancient persons, names, titles and relationships; 4. research tools for historians; 5. standards and software contributing to the Linked Ancient World Data community.

Trismegistos

Trismegistos is an interdisciplinary portal (hosted at KU Leuven) for the study of Ancient World texts. The TM platform collects metadata of papyrological and epigraphical resources (mainly between 800 BC-AD 800) such as TM Places (gazetteer), TM People (prosopography),TM Collections (registry), …

World Historical Gazetteer

A project of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh, the WHG is developing a spatially and temporally comprehensive database of significant world historical place names.

iDAI

Working with the German Archaeological Institute to support the creation of semantic geospatial annotations.