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Join us for Linked Pasts 11, "Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, & the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration", Tues 9 Dec 15:00 GMT. The @whgazetteer.org will introduce the new Institute for Spatial History Innovation and highlight recent WHG developments. Sign up here forms.gle/dzSq2GibT17n...

Wanted: #GLAM curators and project leaders for testing an automated image enrichment pipeline machina.rainersimon.io #galleries #libraries #archives #museums

Tomorrow (Wed) 14:00 GMT is our Annotation December Stammtisch, at which Rocio Da Riva (Barcelona) will discuss RelNet — a project exploring sacred landscapes and the connections between Babylonian cult centres. Join us to hear about all the issues of annotating cuneiform texts with digital tools

Calling the #LinkedPasts, @pelagios.bsky.social, #prosopography and @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for #Wikidata next week (intro Monday, working session Thursday) Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

Thrilled to share that #GRAPHIA partner Odoma helped create the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook after the @pelagios.bsky.social workshop on LLMs & Linked Open Data. Big thanks to @mrom56k.bsky.social for representing us! pelagios.org/llm-lod...#GRAPHIA #AI #DigitalHeritage #LOD

(10) Wikidata/CIDOC property mapping: discovery and planning. Organizers: Anne Chen, Kimiko Adler, Katherine Thornton, Florian Thiery, Daria Stefan, Maxime Guénette. Work on alignments between cidoc-crm.org & linked.art with Wikidata.org. Email Anne to sign up.

(9) SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations: TEI XML and Wikidata, convened by Gabriel Bodard, Faith Lawrence, Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo & @tupmanc.bsky.social. Introduction on 1st Dec, and choice of two working sessions on 3rd & 4th. Sign up at www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma....

(8) Reconstructing events in time and space. Convenors: Yu Lee An and Ryan Shaw, University of North Carolina. Sign up via: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The activity will create a repository and web page under the Distributed Knowledge Graph Lab Github Organization: github.com/dkglab

(7) Promoting Collaboration, Linking Communities: building Pelagios connections through the Digital Classicist Wiki (wiki.digitalclassicist.org), convened by Tom Gheldof & Sarah Middle. Meetings on 1st and 8th December. Sign up for this activity at forms.gle/UTX6rhQP4kxw....

(6) Pelagios Network People Activity: Sample Data Hackathon, convened by Gabriel Bodard (London) & Jun Ogawa (Tokyo). Two online meetings on 1–4 Dec working with our sample data repo github.com/DigiClass/LO.... Sign up for this activity: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

(5) Pelagios Network Annotation Working Group. Convenors: @eltonteb.bsky.social and Anne Chen. For this meeting in December, we will hear from Rocio Da Riva on her project RelNet: religious networks in Late Babylonia. Contact convenors to enroll.

(4) Linking Knowledge Through Place: ISHI, WHG, and the Future of Gazetteer Collaboration, with @rmostern.bsky.social @docuracy.co.uk, Alexandra Loranna, Palak Vashist. Look at Institute for Spatial History Innovation & World Historical Gazetteer. Register to participate at forms.gle/dzSq2GibT17n...

(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...

(2) Documenting Epigraphic Data in Wikidata: From Ontology to Practice, organised by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini (London), @maxguen.bsky.social (Montréal), Emily Helm (Yale), Anne Hunnell Chen (Bard). Two meetings in 2–3 Dec. Sign up at www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Activities at LP11 will include: (1) La Chronique des fouilles en ligne/Archaeology in Greece Online (@lachronique.bsky.social): First geodata hackathon, organised by Catherine Bouras (@efathenes.bsky.social) and Eleni Gkadolou (@britschoolathens.bsky.social).

Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12) linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

Want an easy way to edit the output from Dots.OCR? Introducing Dots.OCR editor, an easy way to edit outputs from the model. Features: 1) Edit bounding boxes 2) Edit OCR 3) Edit reading order 4) Group sections (good for newspapers) Vibe coded with Claude 4.5 github.com/wjbmattingly...

Check out @museologi.st 's awesome stuff (done on his own dime) — a map demo of Roman Republican coins reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme republican-coins.museologi.st#/?/?/?/mode=..., with links to loads of data sources (Nomisma, Wikidata), all code on github.com/portableant/... #maps

In her great talk hosted by @pelagios.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social mentioned the AI4LAM project, which has this awesome "Awesome List" of AI resources for the GLAM sector sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/...

EpiDoc is the de facto standard for digital encoding of epigraphy, papyrology and other ancient or historical text-bearing objects. Basically, if your object is as important as your text then EpiDoc may be the flavour of TEI XML for you. (Books, ecclectic editions of manuscripts etc maybe less so.)

This is a monthly event, and if the EpiDoc maintainers can’t answer your encoding questions, I’m not sure who can.

Starting in 10 minutes - our Fall plenary with @miaout.bsky.social on Pitfalls and promises: AI & cultural heritage collections in 2025. Now that ‘using AI’ has gone from a difficult, bespoke process to something you can do on your browser, what should researchers be excited / anxious about & why?

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/...

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

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

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?

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

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.

Some real-time coding happening, courtesy of Rob Sanderson

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

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

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?)

See bsky.app/profile/abou...

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

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)

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 😅

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.

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

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...

#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/

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

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.

#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...

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

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

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

#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

Possibly of interest for folks at #DH2025. Dan is using Rainer's magic liiive.now. Give it a whirl.

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/