linked geo-data and early geospatial documents

PELAGIOSLinked Geo-Data & Early Geospatial DocumentsRainer Simon, Austrian Institute of TechnologyElton Barker, The Open Universityhttp://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk@pelagiosproject

Historical GIS Workshop | 15. 11. 2013, Berlin

Pelagios | Linking Data, Openly

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…or any other online resource that bears a relation to a particular ancient place!

Connecting Ancient World Research Resourcesthrough the Places they refer to

InscriptionsTexts

ArchaeologicalFinds

MuseumObjects

ArchaeologicalSites

One Ring to Rule them All | Non-Goals

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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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How? | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!

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pleiades:579885

(Athenae)

pleiades:570685

(Sparta)

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Ancient WorldResources

Pleiades

Pelagios

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Data | Annotations as Standoff Markup

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Publish-able as dump files (no triple store required)

De-coupled from your data infrastructure – no impact onschemas, conceptual models, technology

Pelagios data license is independent from the data itself – only annotations need to be CC

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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

Pelagios 3 | (Partly) Future Work

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)

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

Development | Pelagios Data Toolbelt

Development | Online Data Visualization

Development | Toponym Detection

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Development | Annotorious

Development | Map Annotation

Pre-Pelagios 3 Tools | Graph Explorer Demo

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Exploring Relations betweenPlaces through Data

Exploring Relations betweenData through Place

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Thank YouFor Your Attention!

http://pelagios-project.blogspot.comrainer.simon@ait.ac.at@aboutgeo