 My name is Rebecca Kahn and I'm a researcher in the Research, Learning and Innovation team. I work on a project which connects historical sources via annotations made in linked open data to each other. What this means is we're able to take digitised historical documents like maps, texts and images and using linked open data connect these objects to each other and to other objects on the web. This means that researchers are now able to make new inquiries and do new studies using sources that had previously been unconnected. So for example, we recently did a project with the British Library in which we digitised maps from the 13th and 14th centuries. By using these maps and the digital sources that we were able to connect them to we were able to show that sailors 700 years ago were able to create maps that are as accurate and as correct as maps that you can find today. Using linked data to search for historical sources is a little bit like being a digital Indiana Jones. You can search through museums, libraries and archives and find things that you might never have been able to locate in the past. But the best way to find out about these is to visit our website www.pelagioscommons.org to find out more about how this works.