Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

*Friday June 12th at 16:30 in room 348, 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'*

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.

Full abstract is available at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015-02li.html

*ALL WELCOME*

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

The full 2015 programme is at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2015.html