The BBC documentation series "History of the World" arose out of a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum. The partnership then extended to museums across the UK who teamed up with the BBC in their area and selected over 1,000 objects from their own collections reflecting world history from their perspective, involving schools, museums and audiences across the UK.
Within this project BBC published a brochure titled "How do they know that?" which informs about methods and tools of historians and archaeologists. The brochure also features the research project PELAGIOS, where AIT´s research group Digital Memory Engineering participates as a key research and software development partner, and the AIT Graph Explorer Software as well, which was developed within PELAGIOS project.
PELAGIOS
PELAGIOS stands for "Pelagios: Enable Linked Ancient Geodata In Open Systems". It is a Digital Classics network which aims to interconnect scholarly resources from the domain of Ancient World research through the places they refer to. Pelagios also means 'of the sea', the superhighway of the ancient world - a metaphor the consortium considers appropriate for a digital resource that will connect references to ancient places.
Pelagios is open to online content of any type and format, currently connecting data as diverse as text collections, image archives, archaeological databases, publication series, and online resources produced by specific research projects.
At time of this writing, the growing list of Pelagios partners include: Arachne, The Book of the Dead Project, The British Museum, CLAROS, Fasti Online, Google Ancient Places, Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine, ISAW Papers, Meketre, Nomisma, Online Coins of the Roman Empire, Open Context, ORACC, Papyri.info, Perseus, the Pleiades Gazetteer of the Ancient World, The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Ports Antiques, Regnum Francorum Online, SPQR, SquinchPix, The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (ORBIS), The Ure museum. For an up-to-date list visit the Pelagios blog at http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk.
Links:
- Andrew Marr's History of the World
- BBC/Open University Download Section - Brochure "How do they know that"
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