It’s
always a happy day when we can announce more content has been added to
Peripleo, the Pelagios Linked Data search and visualisation engine. And
today we’re able to announce not just one, but two new additions to the
Linked Data ecosystem.
The first is a set of Pleiades annotations relating to ceramics of Kerameikos.org
partners, made available through semantic reasoning between typologies,
Kerameikos SKOS concepts, and Pleiades URIs. This works out to over 190
objects from a range of sources, including the Fralin Museum, the
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, the J. Paul Getty Museum and
the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology.
Kerameikos materials viewed in the Peripleo interface
The second is one of the datasets from the Crossing Frontiers project at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Crossing Frontiers is a travelling research seminar programme for Early
Career Researchers interested in the medieval art and culture of the
eastern frontier between Christianity and Islam, covering Anatolia, the
Caucasus and the western Iranian world. The project, which investigates
questions of cross-cultural exchange and international artistic
production, is supported by the Getty Foundation. The dataset includes
interactive plans, 360 degree views, textual descriptions and
bibliographies for monument sites in Turkey, Armenia and Georgia.
Screenshot of the information page for one of the Crossing Frontiers sites now indexed in Peripleo
Both
of these collaborations have been in the works for some months, and
while Pelagios is not actively maintaining Peripleo, we are always
interested in speaking to projects and institutions who do have Linked
Data collections that they want to add to the general ecosystem.
Collaborations, joint proposals and shared projects have always been the
preferred way of doing things at Pelagios, and this hasn’t changed.
There are several options available to make this happen:
Take a look at the World Historical Gazetteer — our friends at the WHG have been developing a comprehensive format for contributing Linked Data collections, it’s well documented here and you can see the details on GitHub
Consider
joining the Pelagios Network. The Network is an independent
association, run by independent Partners, connected by a common interest
in the application of digital methods to the study of historical places
and, in particular, to the use of semantic web technologies, such as
Linked Open Data and gazetteers. It is open to all, with no membership
fee, and it is possible to join as a Member by simply signing up to the
mailing list, or as a Partner, by agreeing an MoU with one or more of
the Network’s Charter activities. Partners have the opportunity to
develop and coordinate work in the Network to plan for and implement
better ways of connecting, exposing, visualising, querying and analysing
Linked Open Data. For more information about how to do this, take a
look at the Network’s Partners page.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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