Pelagios is a project that links ancient places mentioned in texts, inscriptions, archaeological finds, and museum objects through annotations. It involves over 45 partners from 10 countries annotating over 1 million references. The goal is to enable discovery and enrich context by connecting data through common references rather than imposing a common schema. Pelagios develops tools to make annotation easy and provides services like a search API and downloadable geospatial data to explore the links between sources. The project aims to support digital scholarship by building an ecosystem that interconnects people, places, times and more across various projects and resources.

1. Pelagios : enabling discoverability,
enriching context, promoting reuse
Elton Barker (The Open University)
http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @Pelagiosproject
20 October 2015 | Open Access Week: Open Data, Library Services, Library Seminar Room 1

2. Linking together the places of
our past through the documents
that refer to them
InscriptionsInscriptions
TextsTexts
Archaeological
Finds
Archaeological
Finds
Museum
Objects
Museum
Objects
Archaeological
Sites
Archaeological
Sites
The Challenge of Discovery | Linking online data, openly
45+ partners from 10 countries
ca. 1,000,000+ annotations

3. 3
 Data aggregation X
 Standard data representation X
 MEGA search portal X
Connectivity through common references rather than a common schemaConnectivity through common references rather than a common schema
What Pelagios isn’t | One ring to rule them all

4. The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
4
pleiades:579885
(Athenae)
pleiades:570685
(Sparta)

5. Pleiades
Ancient
World
Resources
Pelagios
Pelagios network | Interlinking different knowledge
communities

6. Towards a digital scholarship | Bottomless Maps

7. Towards a digital scholarship | Future Footnotes

8. Pelagios 3 | Annotation (texts and maps), gazetteer interoperability

9. Making annotation easy | developing a Web-based Open Source tool
http://pelagios.org/recogito/

10. Text Annotation (The “Target”) | Marking places in texts

11. Image Annotation (The “Target”) | Marking toponyms on maps

12. Georesolution (The “Body”) | Matching places to the gazetteer(s)

13. Toponym detail | Finding the right gazetteer match

14. Pelagios 3 outcomes | Browser-based maps of geographic data

15. Pelagios 3 outcomes | Download CSV GIS to query the data

16. Pelagios 3 outcomes | Overlaying verified toponymy with original

17. The Pelagios API v.3 | A “google” style search with bells

18. API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + filtering results
http://pelagios.org/peripleo/map

19. API v.3 query (‘Peripleo’) | Searching by object + exploring the area

20. Pleiades
PastPlace
Getty Thesauri
PeriodO
ChronOntology
Canonical Text
Services
SENSCHAL
SNAP
OCRE
…
Google Ancient Places (OU, Soton)
Perseus Digital Library (Tufts)
Arachne (Cologne)
SPQR (King's College, London)
Digital Memory Engineering (AIT)
Open Context (UC Berkeley)
CLAROS (Oxford)
PtolemyMachine (Holy Cross)
Ure Museum (Reading)
FastiOnline (AIAC)
Nomisma (ANS)
Regnum Francorum Online
Papyri.info (ISAW/NYU)
Ports Antiques
Oracc (U. Penn.)
Meketre (Vienna)
OCRE (ANS/ISAW)
Squinchpix
ORBIS (Stanford)
MJBC (Cambridge)
ISAW Papers (ISAW)
Totenbuch (Bonn/Cologne)
PAS (The British Museum)
SAWS (KCL/Uppsala/Stockholm/Vienna)
Trismegistos (K. U. Leuven)
AWMC (Chapel Hill)
Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World
DM Project (Drew)
Ancient History Encyclopedia
Dickinson College Commentaries
Edinburgh Geoparser (Edinburgh)
EDH (Heidelberg)
EAGLE
LGPN (Oxford)
...
50+ projects
The Digital Ecosystem | Linking places, people,
time…
| An Emerging Ecosystem
Resource Curators
Concept Schemes
Infrastructure
& Support
Linked Pasts – 20th
& 21st
July @KCL
Linked Pasts – 20th
& 21st
July @KCL

21. Blog: http://pelagiosproject.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @Pelagiosproject
Annotation: http://pelagios.org/recogito/
Search: http://pelagios.org/peripleo/map
Code: https://github.com/pelagios
Thanks to JISC, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the
AHRC, the Onassis Foundation, and all our partners
Thank you for your attention!
Pelagios are:
Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open University
Leif Isaksen, Dept. of History, University of Southampton
Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna
Pau de Soto Cañ amares, Institute of Catalan Studies, Barcelona