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.
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