Semantic Annotation Without the Pointy Brackets with Elton Barker, The Open University (UK)/Pelagios This workshop will introduce Recogito, a Web-based open-source software platform for semantic annotation, with a focus on geographic content (e.g. itineraries, histories, maps, etc.), and connecting online resources documenting the past. Special attention will be given to showing how Recogito offers opportunities for libraries to harvest new and more fine-grained metadata about their holdings, and how collaborative annotation can be a powerful tool for classroom teaching or for public engagement.

1. Annotating with Recogito | Elton Barker
22 May 2019 | iAnnotate: Annotation Unleashed: The Web at 30, Washington DC
@eltonteb
@PelagiosNetwork

2. The problem / opportunity | different ways of seeing the world

3. One answer | annotate
Marcianus Graecus Z.454 (= 822)
(Venetus A), folio 12 recto
Homer Iliad book 1 lines 1-1.25
http://www.homermultitext.org/
urn:cite:hmt:vaimg.VA012RN-0013
This image was derived from an original ©2007, Biblioteca Nazionale
Marciana, Venezie, Italia. The derivative image is ©2010, Center for
Hellenic Studies. Original and derivative are licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
License. The CHS/Marciana Imaging Project was directed by David
Jacobs of the British Library.

4. A brief history of Pelagios: What is it, and why should I care?
 The Pelagios way: linking data via semantic annotation
 What can you do with linked data? E.g. Peripleo
Introducing Recogito: What can you do with semantic annotation?
 map texts and use tags
 map and compare maps
 collaborate
 download the data
 link people as well as data
Workshop: DIY annotation with Recogito
Summary of Workshop | The means and use of semantic annotation

5. 5
…or any other online resource that bears
a relation to a particular historical place!
Connecting historical Resources
through the Places that they refer to
InscriptionsInscriptions
TextsTexts
Archaeological
Finds
Archaeological
Finds
Museum
Objects
Museum
Objects
Archaeological
Sites
Archaeological
Sites
Pelagios | Linking the places of our past

6. How Pelagios works | Don’t unify the model, annotate!
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7. The Pelagios method | Lightweight semantic annotation
Typically an Annotation has a single Body, which is the comment
or other descriptive resource, and a single Target that the Body is
somehow "about". The Body provides the information which is
annotating the Target. This "aboutness" may be further clarified
or extended to notions such as classifying or identifying.

8. The Recogito platform | from annotation to semantic annotation

9. peripleo.pelagios.org/ | a linked data search prototype

10. Linking data | Use annotation to connect resources

11. Spatial footprints| See the places mentioned in a collection

12. Search by object | Filter by source, region, time

13. How LOUD? | The teenage sex problem

14. recogito.pelagios.org | DIY semantic annotation

15. Mapping texts | Visualise the geospatial information in (/of) narratives

16. Using tags | Customise your annotation

17. Annotating images | Rotate, pin/draw around, transcribe, align

18. Comparing documents | Juxtapose different spatial footprints

19. Mapping maps | Locate and visualise hand-drawn plans

20. Collaborative annotation | involve communities in curating cultural heritage

21. Pipelines | Download options

22. The Pelagios Network | linking people as well as data