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The Pelagios Network (https://pelagios.org/) is a community of researchers, scientists and curators using Linked Data methods and tools to investigate the past.

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Nov 7

Given current events, this seems to be the right time for us, Pelagios, to be joining bluer skies. Who are we? We are a free and open association of equal and interdependent Partners from the digital humanities, GLAM sector, and data science field, working to make linking data online really easy.

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 22d

Also, if you are a scholar of the Ancient Near East, consider sending us your stuff! It will be published in our edited collection for Nature:

www.nature.com/collections/...

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 27d

Work is coming together. The GitHub repo is being populated. Follow along here github.com/pelagios/llm...

GitHub - pelagios/llm-lod-enriching-heritage: A repo containing a PythonBook containing recipes created by the Lorentz Center workshop 'Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data' (Leid...

A repo containing a PythonBook containing recipes created by the Lorentz Center workshop 'Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data' (Leiden, September 8-12, 2025) - pelagio...

github.com

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 27d

Sketching out the users and usability of the LLM infused LOD cookbook — the who, what, how? Courtesy of @miaout.bsky.social & co

Blackboard with notes about what the cookbook is for, for whom, and how

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 28d

The final group working on applications — essentially, what can a cultural heritage professional do with the automated list of disambiguated named entities? But what's going on behind the curtain?

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 28d

Meanwhile, work continues furiously on articulating the following two stages of the LLM-LOD pipeline: the reconciliation process itself and then the evaluation of it

A room showing people working at laptops

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 28d

Rob Sanderson explaining to a thoughtful-looking Leif Isaksen how our LLM pipeline for preparing the automated reconciliation of named entities to authority files (like Wikidata, Pleiades, Nomisma, etc.) is going to work.

Rob Sanderson explaining to Leif Isaksen how our LLM pipeline for preparing reconciliation of named entities is going to work

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 28d

Some real-time coding happening, courtesy of Rob Sanderson

Person working at a computer with a screen behind showing computer code

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 28d

Day 3 of Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs + LOD www.lorentzcenter.nl/enriching-di.... From NER to disambiguation: the data group using the latest tech to sketch out how MCPs can generate candidates for linking NER outputs to authority files

Sketch in chalk of the process for generating candidates for matching NER output to authority files

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Leiden right now we've just begun a weeklong workshop on exploring the transformative potential of combining Large Language Models (LLMs) & Linked Open Data (LOD) to enrich cultural heritage metadata in ways that foster FAIR usage www.lorentzcenter.nl/enriching-di... Watch this space for outcomes

Center for Scientific Workshops in All Disciplines - Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data

www.lorentzcenter.nl

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · Aug 13

The "LOD People" activity of the @pelagios.bsky.social Network (pelagios.org/activities/p...) has been collecting samples of data from digital datasets that record historical persons (whether in LOD, TEI XML, CSV, or any other open format.

(Do you have any such data we could look at?)

People

Works towards consensus and standards for common representation of historical people in structured Linked Open Data

pelagios.org

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Jul 21

See bsky.app/profile/abou...

Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Jul 1

If you haven’t checked in on #IMMARKUS lately—we’ve added even more transcription services. Run OCR or transcription using:

• Anthropic Claude
• Azure Computer Vision
• Google Gemini
• Google Vision
• LLaMA & Qwen via kluster.ai
• OCR.space
• OpenAI GPT
• Volcano Engine

More coming—stay tuned!

A screenshot of the IMMARKUS transcription wizard, showing the dropdown menu of service options.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Jul 20

Sketching out an idea for a future #liiive feature:

• Write about a IIIF object
• Embed annotation snippets (links or images).
• Everything stays connected—click a snippet to move the viewer. Maybe even a bit of #scrollytelling?

Curious what you think—would you use this? #DigitalHumanities #IIIF

User interface concept for an "essay" feature in #liiive. Images shows the user interface with a new overlay panel containing text about the IIIF object (the 1507 Waldseemüller map). The text includes an embedded annotation snippet image and an annotation link. The viewer (right side) shows the same annotated region as the snippet.

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 20

You can find yourself in this #DH2025 state-of-the-union. In our small way, we are prioritizing "care over speed, sufficiency over spectacle, community over competition", by sharing knowledge, giving advice & building resilience into tool development (thanks to Partners like @performant.bsky.social)

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · Jul 18

And if you aren’t at #DH2025, ping any of us — happy to chat :)

We’ve been working on all sorts of open source tools, and I am *personally* quite excited about the mapping tools and the annotation tools because, well, #PlaceNerd and #LitNerd. I map and mark things up for fun 😅

Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Performant Studio

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

www.performantsoftware.com

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 18

Also this from @museologi.st, from a few months back — upping again for those at #dh2025. Dan is a one-man punk cultural heritage operation.

Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · Jan 29

UK heritage at risk heritage-at-risk.museologi.st#/5.33/-2.114... — a #Peripleo instance @museologi.st knocked up on a rainy afternoon, scraping / parsing open data from Historic England (4600 places) with 11.5k links to Wikidata, National Heritage List for England, a church near, listed buildings

Heritage at Risk - viewed using Peripleo

A viewer using Peripleo to show Historic England's Heritage at Risk data

https://heritage-at-risk.museologi.st/#/5.33/-2.1147/52.5241/mode=points—

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 18

Retweeting with Dan's bluesky handle, @museologi.st, so that he can get the kudos he deserves — and in case this work is of interest to folks at #dh2025

The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 17

The amazing Dan Pett has been at it again. Using @aboutgeo.bsky.social liiive.now Dan explains how to DIY your own IIIF: add image to cms, create manifest, put manifest into Rainer's magic, download annotations, paste text into cms, manifest recreates. Try it yourself! museologi.st/blog/iiif-di...

Setting up a IIIF system

Instructions on how to set up IIIF services on AWS using Cantaloupe, Directus and S3

museologi.st

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ARIADNE Research Infrastructure @ariadne-ri.bsky.social · Jul 18

ATRIUM is calling for Archaeologists to send them audio/video recordings wanted for testing the Speech Transcription Portal in English, Dutch, German and Italian. Help develop this new service! More information: www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2025/07/18/a...

ATRIUM - Recordings wanted for testing the Transcription Portal on picture of archaeologists on site

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · Jul 18

#TEIFriday
A reminder that if you have #EpiDoc related announcements (projects, jobs, publications, training) that you'd like to announce via Current Epigraphy, contact the EpiDoc rep, and they can circulate it for you. currentepigraphy.org/about/

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Chatbot project starting to take shape... #DigitalHumanities #DH2025 #IIIF #LLM

Preview of the chatbot interface of the "Machina Emblematica" project. A scanned page from the "Symbola Emblematica" is shown on the left, the conversational interface (text, image thumbnails and text input field) is shown on the right.

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · Jul 17

Image annotation with LLMs is a big trend at #DH2025. Work being done across several projects, including our humble poster tomorrow, featuring work on emblem classification and RAG with Michela Vignoli at AIT and @aboutgeo.bsky.social.

Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Jul 17

Looking forward to hearing "Exploring the “Great Unseen” in Medieval Manuscripts: Instance-Level Labeling of Legacy Image Collections with Zero-Shot Models" next from Christofer Meinecke, Estelle Guéville, and David Wrisley
#DH2025

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Jul 17

#DH2025, we're delighted to share a Turing's Humanities and Data Science event in Oxford and online on 25th Sept with a panel asking: 'How far can data science and the humanities help to answer each other’s questions?'

Express your interest here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

Free event. Registration required.

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint
29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link)
Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo)

https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 17

Pelagios is proud to count Performant & Rainer as Partners. Together, we are trying to build methods/tools for annotating & structuring data "in the round", where different Partners contribute knowledge, resource and/or funding, towards distributive resilience. Join our community of practice #dh2025

Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

Performant Studio is a set of smaller sharper tools which you can use together or separately, and which integrate nicely with others, including Recogito Studio, the TEI and IIIF annotation platform we built in collaboration with @aboutgeo.bsky.social, University of Bonn and others. #dh2025

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · Jul 17

Sorry to have only found your post now (still getting used to bluesky!). For an e.g. of Recogito in the wild: www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/article/view/316 NB: There's now the new&shiny recogitostudio.org - fully supported & modular, to enable plugins. Do get in touch if interested

Recogito Studio

An Extensible Platform for Collaborative, Standards-Based Annotation of TEI Text, IIIF Images, and PDFs. Modern, Open Source, and Easy to Use.

recogitostudio.org

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · Mar 24

#DH friends: I just came across the Recogito project by @pelagios.bsky.social & have been sharing it with students who are planning #mapping projects building on NER place names.

Nice annotation tool; built-in map; shareable/exportable.

Have any of you been using Recogito?

recogito.pelagios.org

Semantic Annotation without the pointy brackets

Work on texts and images. Identify and mark named entities. Use your data in other tools or connect to other data on the Web. Without the need to learn code.

recogito.pelagios.org

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