Linking data and people

Pelagios is a global community of practice and bottom-up infrastructure developing the ways and means of linking heritage data online

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We promote standards-based methods and tools

As an infrastructure, Pelagios coordinates lightweight Linked Open Data (LOD) approaches to connecting historical information in and across the humanities and heritage sectors, based on web annotation, FAIR principles, and easy-to-use open-source tools.

We connect people

As a community of practice, Pelagios is made up of people drawn from a range of backgrounds — researchers, educators, software developers, heritage professionals — interested in making use of LOD technologies to study the past. Working Groups meet regularly to coordinate work on entities of Place, People and Time, and processes of Annotation, Registry and Visualisation.

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