Presentation about Pelagios at the Workshop "What's in a Place?" - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, November 15, 2013.

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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