This document discusses linking data openly about the ancient world. It begins by introducing the Linked Ancient World Data Institute and some related projects like Pleiades and Pelagios that link place-based data. It notes that annotating data, rather than unifying models, allows linking different datasets. Examples are given of scholarly projects and museums that are exploring relations between places and data through open linked data approaches. The document suggests this represents a paradigm shift in scholarship as it allows bringing different resources together to explore connections and interpretations in new ways.

1. Linking Data, Openly
Linked Ancient World Data Institute #lawdi
Elton Barker, The Open University
Twitter: @eltonteb, @pelagiosproject
2 June, 2012 | The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York

2. Linking data| Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!
pleiades:570685
(Sparta)
pleiades:579885
(Athenae)
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3. Linked data| There and back again
Exploring Relations between Exploring Relations between
Places through Data Data through Place
http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/
https://github.com/pelagios/pelagios-cookbook/wiki

4. Linked data | Placebook
http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis/index.html#index

5. Linked data friendly| Mashups
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/

6. A paradigm shift?| Scholarly linking
Chris Pelling Nick Rabinowitz
Stefan Bouzarovski Kate Byrne
Hestia
GAP
Eric Kansa
Perseus Pleiades
Elton Barker Leif Isaksen
Open Context
Rainer Simon
Pelagios
Fasti online
Arachne
Ure Museum
SPQR CLAROS
Nomisma

7. A paradigm shift?| Scholarly linking
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8. Conferre| To bring together
“Classicists have always been concerned with
‘parallels’ – with what goes after the magic word ‘cf.’...
What has not been clear with the traditional citation of
parallel passages is what the point of the activity is,
how the parallels affect the interpretation of the text.”
Don Fowler, “On the Shoulders of Giants,” in Roman
Constructions (Oxford, 2000) 116
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9. So what?| Linking the Ancient World
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10. Herodotus| Linking the Ancient World
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