Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of places referred to in early maps and geographic writing predating the year 1492. Pelagios 3 focuses specifically on sources from the Classical Latin, Greek and Byzantine periods; ...

This paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of “technology in use.” The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and f...

In this paper we study topology of the variety of closed pla-nar n-gons with given side lengths l1,. .. , ln. The moduli space M ℓ where ℓ = (l1,. .. , ln), encodes the shapes of all such n-gons. We describe the Betti numbers of the moduli spaces M ℓ as functions of the length vector ℓ = (l1,. .. , ln). We also find sharp upper bounds on the sum of Betti numbers of M ℓ depending only on the num...

The article seeks to identify common motifs and narrative structures in the emerging genre of solarpunk. research presented covers short stories from five anthologies: Sunvault: Stories Solarpunk Eco-Speculation (2017), Solarpunk: Ecological Fantastical Sto­ries a Sustainable World (2018), Glass Gardens: Summers Winters (2020), Multispecies Cities: Urban Futures (2021). Based on ideas methods f...

Kagan, Richard L., and Philip D. Morgan (eds.) 2009 Atlantic Diasporas. Jews, Conversos, and Crypto Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800 Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press. 307 1 table; 2 maps; cover illustrations: top—View of a Jewish settlement; bottom— view of Paramaribo. Reproduced from John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted...

In this paper we describe research into a form of practitioner sensemaking in the context of participatory hypermedia construction sessions, in which groups of people build knowledge maps. We discuss how constructs from narrative theory and improvisation have helped us understand what happens at the moments when practitioners encounter dilemmas and obstacles. We provide brief examples from case...

A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a vital role in various applications associated with sustainable development and clean energy. In these applications, the GIS provides a capability to upload onsite geographical information collected by public into online maps. One of the major problems is how to make a decision for those reports. In this paper, we study two types of cognitive modes f...