The Pelagios project focuses on linking geo-data and early geospatial documents to enrich the study of the ancient world through interconnected resources. It emphasizes the annotation of data rather than standardization, allowing for flexibility in data integration and visualization. Future work includes extending applications to early geospatial documents and maps, supported by open-source tools and technologies.

1. PELAGIOS
Linked Geo-Data & Early Geospatial Documents
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology
Elton Barker, The Open University
http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk
@pelagiosproject
Historical GIS Workshop | 15. 11. 2013, Berlin

2. Pelagios | Linking Data, Openly
Inscriptions
Texts
Museum
Objects
Connecting Ancient World Research Resources
through the Places they refer to
Archaeological
Sites
…or any other online resource that bears
a relation to a particular ancient place!
Archaeological
Finds
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6. One Ring to Rule them All | Non-Goals
 Data aggregation
 Federated search
 Standardization of data representation
 Schema alignment & interoperability on a metadata level
Connectivity through common references rather than a common schema!
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8. How? | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
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9. Pleiades
Pelagios
Ancient World
Resources
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11. Data | Annotations as Standoff Markup
 Publish-able as dump files (no triple store required)
 De-coupled from your data infrastructure – no impact on
schemas, conceptual models, technology
 Pelagios data license is independent from the data itself – only
annotations need to be CC
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12. Pelagios 3 | (Partly) Future Work
Early Geospatial Documents
 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funding
 September 2013 – August 2015
 Pelagios Approach extended to
maps and geographic texts up to 1492
 Latin, Greek & Byzantine, European
Medieval, European Maritime, Islamic,
Chinese
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13. Pelagios 3 | Technology Topics
 Aligning Gazetteers
Linking based on “connectivity through common references”
Using GeoNames and Wikidata as shared reference system
 Automating Annotation
Geo-Parsing (Text -> Toponyms)
Geo-Resolution (Toponyms -> Gazetteer IDs)
Image processing to identify toponyms on maps scans
Workflows & tools for expert correction
 Visualizing Pelagios Data
Visualizing the “Pelagios Network”
Publishing annotated materials (where possible)

14. Pelagios 3 | Open Source
 Pelagios uses Open Source – e.g.
Stanford NLP Toolkit and Edina Unlock Geoparser
Lucene index engine
Neo4j graph database
OpenCV computer vision library
Leaflet, D3 et al.
 Pelagios develops Open Source – e.g.
Scalagios
Pelagios Data Toolbelt
API & Visualization Workbench
http://github.com/pelagios

15. Development | Pelagios Data Toolbelt

16. Development | Online Data Visualization

17. Development | Toponym Detection

18. Development | Annotorious
10.12.2009
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19. Development | Map Annotation

20. Pre-Pelagios 3 Tools | Graph Explorer Demo
Exploring Relations between
Places through Data
Exploring Relations between
Data through Place
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21. Thank You
For Your Attention!
http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com
rainer.simon@ait.ac.at
@aboutgeo
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