Just published! A new Programming Historian lesson by Susan Grunewald + Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social doi.org/10.46430/phen0… Thanks to @apjanco and @VDucatteeuw for their reviews, and to Yann Ryan for editing.

The Pelagios Network is proud to be part of the ATRIUM project, which will bridge leading EU research infrastructures in arts and humanities (DARIAH), archaeology (ARIADNE), languages (CLARIN), and scholarly communication (OPERAS). Check out the newly launched project website👇🏼

Heel mooi nieuws voor Rombert Stapel & Thomas Vermaut! HisGIS.nl wordt dankzij nieuwe financiering duurzamer en gebruiksvriendelijker 🥳 De basis van HisGIS is het gedigitaliseerde eerste kadaster, dat in 1832 in werking trad. Meer weten? iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/hisgis…

Slides and video of my 17 April "Semantics of World Historical Gazetteer" talk are available here: tinyurl.com/pxkm232j

Vous avez une adresse ancienne à Paris (avant 1850) et vous voulez savoir où c'est. C'est ici qu'il faut chercher: kurzlinks.de/8afy FactGrid

CFP: Travelers of the Early Modern Era (16th-18th centuries) on European Routes ift.tt/E2Fyu0a

Competition between Dutch Skippers, German Ship-owners, and the Transition to Steam. Read in Hein Klemann's article in TSEG how small-scale skippers and their families competed with steam ships and the new railways tseg.nl/article/view/1…

Congratulations to all involved! A great project and made even more amazing by making the data publically available. A sure template for other similar projects!

The real reason why the Roman Empire was such a success, and sustainable, too: great public transport infrastructure... Nice idea well done by Sasha Trubetskoy Sasha Trubetskoy sashamaps.net/docs/maps/roma…

This summer, explore street maps of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650) with Viabundus viabundus - theroadsproject. It includes a database of settlements, towns, tolls, and other information that would be useful to any pre-modern traveler. ➡️ tiny.cc/y1lazz

Geospatial methods can detect location names from historical maps, make them searchable, and allow for the automated extraction of geographic data from those maps. buff.ly/3WCc1y7

Viabundus on the Road: Meet our PI Bart Holterman today in Washington D.C. at #DH2024 (dh2024.adho.org). In the panel "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" @rmidura and other EM Digital members discuss premodern spatial data. Fresh!

Wie lange hat es im römischen Reich gedauert, um von London nach Rom zu kommen und wie viel denarii hat es gekostet? 30 Tage, 3000km u.a. mit dem Esel Ein Routenplaner für das Römische Reich Oh mein Gott, diese Website ist ein fantastisches Spielzeug! 😍 orbis.stanford.edu

Still going strong, 12 years later! Walter Scheidel Elijah Meeks (elijahmeeks.bsky.social)

All aboard for a journey through history! 🚂 The latest in our series, A History of Railways in 100 Maps, takes you from the first railways in England to those in fantasy literature, with 140 beautifully photographed maps from our archives. bit.ly/BLShopRailways

On travaille actuellement sur un atlas sonore du français, on a récolté des milliers d'enregistrements <3 Comment vous dites, #anana ou #ananasse ? Pour écouter >> fndr-app.vercel.app/?task=56 #AtlaSonore

Spending a wonderful day in Aarhus discussing Roman roads and beyond Tom Brughmans Adam Pažout Kamil Kopij - @kkopij.bsky.social viabundus - theroadsproject @paudsoto

Very much looking forward to our #IMC2025 session IMC_Leeds on "Routes Reimagined: Digital Methods in Historical Mobility Analysis" scheduled for Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:15-12:45, with viabundus - theroadsproject, Pierre Fütterer and Laurin Herberich!

There it is: The Viabundus Update 2.0 including the new dataset created by the team of Viabundus Suomi ! We invite you to a virtual event packed with short presentations on Friday, April 25, 10-12 CEST. Find the programme and the registration here: s.academiccloud.de/FstqOZ