The Pelagios 2 project, led by Dr Elton Barker, lecturer in Classical Studies, has received a £154,000 grant from JISC, the digital technologies support body, to create an 'ancient world superhighway' for the benefit of scholars and members of the public.
It follows on from the original Pelagios project to bring together data from researchers working on the ancient world.
The name Pelagios means 'of the sea', because the sea was the networking medium for ancient places.
Dr Barker said: "Our original project, Pelagios, has enjoyed great success in bringing together data from various ancient world projects, so that scholars and members of the public are able to discover different resources that reference an ancient place of interest.
"With the additional funding, we’ll be able to formalise that process into providing a ‘digital toolkit’ for those people who produce the data."
Working on Pelagios 2 with The Open University are: the University of Southampton, the Austrian Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, the University of Cologne, King’s College London, the American Numismatic Society and the University of Reading.
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