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Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world

By Simon Mahony, on 12 June 2015

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This week’s Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar:

Friday June 12th at 16:30 in Room G34, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Leif Isaksen, Pau de Soto (Southampton), Elton Barker (Open
University) and Rainer Simon (Vienna):
‘Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world.’

This session will also be live-cast to our YouTube channel

One of the primary obstacles to conducting geospatial analysis of relevant documents (both maps and texts) is identifying the places to which they refer. Recogito is a user-friendly Web-based tool developed to enable: first the “geotagging” of place names either on maps or in digital texts; then the “georesolving” of those places to an appropriate gazetteer. Not only does this step provide geographical coordinates; by mapping to an authority file (a gazetteer), the documents are also connected to the Pelagios linked data network. All metadata are free and downloadable to the public as CSV files or maps.

The full abstract is available on the programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

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