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23 August 2016, PeriodO Workshop, UT Austin, TX
Lessons from the Pelagios Commons
Leif Isaksen, Lancaster University Rainer Simon, Austrian Institute of Technology Elton Barker, The Open University
Andrew Lindley, Austrian Institute of Technology Pau de Soto, Institute of Catalan Studies
http://commons.pelagios.org
@Pelagiosproject
Linked Data Aggregation
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Whatisanecosystem?
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Pleiades
PastPlace
Ge,yThesauri
PeriodO
ChronOntology
CanonicalTextServices
SENSCHAL
SNAP
OCRE
…
GoogleAncientPlaces(OU,Soton)PerseusDigitalLibrary(TuGs)Arachne(Cologne)SPQR(King'sCollege,London)DigitalMemoryEngineering(AIT)OpenContext(UCBerkeley)CLAROS(Oxford)PtolemyMachine(HolyCross)UreMuseum(Reading)FasSOnline(AIAC)Nomisma(ANS)RegnumFrancorumOnlinePapyri.info(ISAW/NYU)PortsAnSquesOracc(U.Penn.)Meketre(Vienna)OCRE(ANS/ISAW)SquinchpixORBIS(Stanford)MJBC(Cambridge)ISAWPapers(ISAW)Totenbuch(Bonn/Cologne)PAS(TheBriSshMuseum)SAWS(KCL/Uppsala/Stockholm/Vienna)Trismegistos(K.U.Leuven)AWMC(ChapelHill)EncyclopaediaoftheHellenicWorldDMProject(Drew)AncientHistoryEncyclopediaDickinsonCollegeCommentariesEdinburghGeoparser(Edinburgh)EDH(Heidelberg)EAGLELGPN(Oxford)...
LinkedPasts|AnEmergingEcosystem
ResourceCurators
ConceptSchemes
Connec9ngInfrastructure&Support
PelagiosSNAPOpenAnnotaSonBriSshLibraryEDM
PerseidsSharedCanvasHypothes.isCIDOCCRM…
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WhatisPelagios?
ADecentralised
Community&Infrastructure
forLinkedOpenGeodataintheHumani9es
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…oranyotheronlineresourcethatbears
arela.ontoapar.cularancientplace!
Inscrip9ons
Texts
Archaeological
Finds
Archaeological
Sites
commons.pelagios.org
170users|28datasets|600.000records
Pelagios|LinkingData,Openly
Museum
Objects
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ConnecSvitythroughcommonreferencesratherthanacommonschema
What Pelagios isn’t | One ring to rule them all
§ Notadataaggregator
§ Notarepository
§ Notastandarddatamodel
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The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
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pleiades:579885
(Athenae)
pleiades:570685
(Sparta)
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pastplace:
1558632
(Rome)
pastplace:
1218
(Jerusalem)
The concept | Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
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Pleiades
Ancient World Resources
Pelagios
Pelagios network | Linking different knowledge domains
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Toponym detail | Finding the right gazetteer match
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Pelagios Gazetteer Interconnection Format
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Pelagios use cases | Download CSV to query the data
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Pelagios use cases | Overlaying non-geodetic spatial systems
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Towards a digital scholarship | Future Footnotes
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The Pelagios API v.3 | A “google” style search with bells
http://pelagios.org/api-v3
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Peutinger Table Guidonis Geographica Ravenna Cosmography
Nivirgitab Nivergi Nivergi
Simnana Simadana Simadana
Tvbactis Mvn Thubactis Thubactis
Casa Rimoniana Rastitiana Rusticiana
Adcisternas Cisternas Cisternas
Nalad(vs?) Nadalus Nadalus
Dissio Aqva Amara Dision Dision
Chosol Onusol Onusol
Mvsvla Musol Mulsol
Ad ficvm Ficum Ficum
Pretorivm Praetorium Praetorium
Pvtea nig Putea nigra Putea nigra
Macomadase l(orvm) Macitapades maiores Macumades maiores
Zvre Zures Zaures
Adspelvncas Speluncas Speluncas
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Scholarlyresearch|FillingtheBlanks
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TheFutureofPelagios|PelagiosCommons
DecentralisingPelagiosin3ways:
Technical:
• RecogitoassoGwareandopenservice
• IntegraSngPeripleowithotherservices
Social:
• 10SpecialInterestGroups(SIGs)
• OverallmanagementdevolvedtoPelagiosCommons
Commi,ee
Sustainability:
• Longtermfinancialandgovernanceplanning
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Outlook|RecogitoVersion2
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Suppor9ngCommunity|Grants&Events
2016 Resource Development Grants
• Linking Linked Places
• Cross-cultural After-Life of Classical Sites (CALCS)
• CroALa index locorum:
a gazetteer of place names in Croatian Latin texts
• Mediaeval Iberia through Pelagios Commons
• Kima : towards a Hebrew Gazetteer
LINKED PASTS CONFERENCE 15-16 December 2016, UNED, Madrid
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Lessons?
1. Linked Data works better as a tool for discovery and connectivity than as tool for analysis
2. Linking Open Data is collaborative or it is nothing
3. HTTP URIs are more important than RDF or
ontologies
4. Mutual benefit is essential but the benefits need not be the same for everyone
5. It is very hard to manage a growing number of
partners, but essential to make personal
connections. Is decentralisation the answer?
6. Know your limits J
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