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Awld.js

A javascript library for Ancient World Linked Data.

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Awld.js is a javascript library for Ancient World Linked Data. When installed on an existing web page, it will add functionality and visual elements based on links to stable URIs relevant to the study of the Ancient World. View the source of this page for the two 'script' elements you can add to your pages to get it working.

Awld.js in Action

There is a test page.

Click-through on any of these links to see awld.js installed on third-party sites.

Recognized URIs

Hovering over any of the links below will show a "popup" with information drawn from the linked web page.

Articles in Wikipedia:
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/African_red_slip
Entries in the database of the Portable Antiquities Scheme:
http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/495315
Entries in the Encyclopedia of Life:
http://eol.org/pages/328699
Historical people defined by the Perseus Digital Library:
http://data.perseus.org/people/smith:alexander-3
Identifiers for numismatic concepts from nomisma.org:
http://nomisma.org/id/athens,
http://nomisma.org/id/igch2122
Library of Congress Catalog records:
http://lccn.loc.gov/a55003923
Place entries in the Geonames gazetteer:
http://www.geonames.org/4074288/moontown-airport.html
Place entries in the Pleiades gazetteer:
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/520998
Records in the catalog of the American Numismatic Society:
http://numismatics.org/collection/1937.158.409
Records in the catalog of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin:
http://www.smb.museum/ikmk/object.php?id=18207683
Records in the catalog of the Système Universitaire de Documentation:
http://www.sudoc.fr/160739993
Records in the German Archaeological Institute's Arachne database:
http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/1460
Records in the OpenContext archaeological database:
http://opencontext.org/subjects/73221A18-7A7C-44C4-36CD-0CECF8F7A725
Records in the papyri.info system:
http://www.papyri.info/hgv/1357
Texts held in the Perseus Digital Library:
http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLang:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1
Textual records in Trismegistos.org:
http://www.trismegistos.org/text/13
Yale University Art Gallery Ecatalogue:
http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu/detail.htm?objectId=139601

Awld.js is a project of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University overseen by Sebastian Heath. It is licensed under the BSD License; see LICENSE.txt for more infomation.