Rebecca Kahn – Director of Collections (Pelagios Commons and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin) Pelagios Commons is a Linked Open Data project, which connects historical materials, such as texts, images (including maps) and objects to each other using Linked Open Data and Geodata specifically. This session will highlight how decentralised collaborative models, (which have become increasingly common in larger museum tech communities) can be used to the of benefit smaller institutions by helping to expose their collections, without the need for high levels of technical skills among staff or large datasets.

1. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY1
Connecting Collections: Exposing objects in a Linked Data search
engine
(or: How to fit 2 million years of stuff onto 1 map)
Museums+Tech, London, October 2018
Rebecca Kahn
Director of Collections, Pelagios Commons
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet
and Society, Berlin
@Pelagiosproject
@rebamex

2. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY2
Peripleo: A Linked Data Search Engine for Heritage Data
http://peripleo.pelagios.org/
Museums+Tech, London, October 2018

3. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY3
Peripleo Linked Data Scavenger Hunt
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft, Berlin, June 2018
Museums+Tech, London, October 2018
● “Be a digital Indiana Jones (in reverse) and return these
objects!”
● 10 objects
● 8 Institutional Collections
○ American Numismatic Society
○ Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
○ Ure Museum, Reading
○ Archer Archive
○ University of Graz

4. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY4
Peripleo Linked Data Scavenger Hunt
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft, Berlin, June 2018
Museums+Tech, London, October 2018
● Search over 800k objects, from 42 collections
● Filter by period, source, name and toponym
● Route in to the collections

5. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY5
Peripleo Linked Data Scavenger Hunt
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft, Berlin, June 2018
Museums+Tech, London, October 2018
● Link back to the original source
● Explore those collections outside of Peripleo
● A jumping-off point into LOD collections
● Visitors were familiar with collections, want to see
what they know:
○ ‘I come from Mainz, I know these objects are
in the museum there, do you have them?’
○ ‘I’m interested in Egypt, what do you have?

6. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY6
Feed the beast...
Museums+Tech, London, October 2018
● We want your stuff!
● If you have collections of objects, texts, photos as
Linked Data, we can work with you to make it visible.
● Not limited to Ancient World.
● Pelagios Commons is:
○ Prof Leif Isaksen, University of Exeter
○ Dr Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of
Technology
○ Dr Elton Barker, Open University
○ Dr Valeria Vitale, School of Advanced Study,
UoL
○ Me
○ Pelagios: http://commons.pelagios.org/
○ Recogito: https://recogito.pelagios.org
○ Peripleo: http://peripleo.pelagios.org/
Image: Following hadrian on Flickr, CC BY SA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/22673427034/in/photostream/