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Geo annotation
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2017, 17h00-18h15 (CET time)
Session coordinators: Chiara Palladino (University of Leipzig / University of Bari) and Valeria Vitale (University of London)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiLc4LIUHw
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b0AmI4lyDKALc595DJajeX4M-zTFFXiSto5GSGEYZkU/edit?usp=sharing
This session aims to provide a framework about techniques of geo-annotation on written and graphic sources. We will especially focus on manual and semi-automatic annotation of place-names, disambiguation and geo-referencing techniques. The teachers will give an overview on the concept of geography and spatial information in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and will explain in detail the concepts of annotation and geo-annotation. In the practical session, we will present an online tool for geo-annotation, Recogito 2.0, and go through the steps to annotate documents and maps in detail. We will also give an overview on the various export data formats and on some advanced applications. In the following session on visualization of geographical data, we will offer a deeper insight into this topic.
- Introduction: Working on geographies of the past: presenting sources from Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- The concept of annotation
- The concept of geo-annotation
- Georeferencing to gazetteers
- A tool for geo-annotation: Recogito 2.0 guided tour
- General overview on the export data formats of Recogito 2.0 and their applications
- Exercise proposal
Required reading
- Tom Elliott and Sean Gillies, “Digital Geography and Classics”, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2009 3.1, Available: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000031/000031.html
- Rainer Simon, Elton Barker, et al. (2015). “Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with Recogito.” e-Perimetron, 10.2, pp. 49–59. Available: http://oro.open.ac.uk/43613/1/Simon_et_al.pdf
Further reading
- Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen et al. (2013), “On using a digital resources for the study of an ancient greek text: the case of Herodotus’ Histories”, in Stuart Dunn and Simon Mahony (eds.), The Digital Classicist 2013. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement (122), Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, pp. 45-62, Available: http://oro.open.ac.uk/34498/8/Barker_etal2013_Hestia_BICS.pdf
- Ryan Horne, “Beyond Maps as Images at the Ancient World Mapping Center”, ISAW Papers 7.9 (2014). Available: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/horne/
Other references
- The Ancient World Online: roundup of resources on ancient geography: http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/09/roundup-of-resources-on-ancient.html
- Tutorial on Recogito 2: http://recogito.pelagios.org/help/tutorial
Discuss the importance of geo-annotation for the comprehension of documents or graphical representations of the world in the past.
Access to the Recogito 2 account of Sunoikisis DC. By yourself or with your project team, annotate and georesolve one of the sources in the repository, or upload your own sources. Annotate at least 100 place names on the texts if you are working with the original language, or at least 200 place-names (including the names resulting from automatic Named Entity Recognition) if you are working on an English translation.
Text proposals: Pausanias, Description of Greece (English or Greek): Book 1 (Attica), Book 3 (Laconia); Herodotus, Histories (English or Greek), Book 5; Strabo, Geography, Book 1 (English or Greek)
Maps: Al Idrisi, Map of the world...
Project (optional)
Choose and annotate one text on Recogito 2. Choose a data format and export your annotation: use them to visualize the map or the spatial footprint of the document on a visualization tool (QGIS, Carto.com, Google Maps, Leaflet (http://leafletjs.com/), etc.), or simply visualize your annotation on the map provided by Recogito.
Have a look at the map and at the data it displays. What is the relation between text and map? How does the map contribute (but also limit) a better understanding of your source? What types of data does the visualization add to your considerations about the source, that you couldn’t understand with simple reading?
- Go to http://recogito.pelagios.org/
- Click on the Log in button on the upper right and type the following credentials: Username: sunoikisis.leipzig@gmail.com ; Password: sunoikisis
- You are now in the common account of SunoikisisDC. If you wish to create your own account, click on "Register" on the homepage and follow the instructions.