Pelagios Network
Description
The Pelagios Network is a formal open association of equal and independent Partners who coordinate their work together, and a wider community of Members who have an interest in the Network’s outputs. Pelagios is a long-running initiative that links information online through common references to places. To create and maintain these connections, Pelagios has developed:
- a method for creating semantic annotations, based on the W3C Web Annotation standard;
- tools and specifications for creating and making use of these annotations, most notably Recogito, an open-source platform for geo-annotating texts, images and databases;
- a community of individuals and organizations working with geographic data in humanities disciplines (history, language and literary studies, archaeology, etc.), and cultural heritage (galleries, libraries, archives and museums).
In order to sustain and further develop work in this area, the Pelagios Network focuses on six core Activities, which are:
- Annotation, which supports the use of semantic annotation to link and explore historical place information;
- Gazetteers, which establishes core requirements for global authority files on historic places and their alignment;
- Registry, which establishes services for registering and discovering linked data collections for places;
- Time, which finds consensus on the representation of historical time in structured data;
- Visualisation, which develops methods and tools which make use of semantic annotation.
- People, which works towards consensus and standards for common representation of historical people in structured Linked Open Data
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2010
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We are a partner in the EU-funded ATRIUM project: https://atrium-research.eu/ We've been interviewed by the Invest in Open Infrastructure team: https://investinopen.org/about/
Last modified:
2025-02-20 08:30:01