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.- Giallo Antico at ancientmarbles.org. Hover over Pleiades ID in 'Origin' section.
- Coin Hoard from Nomisma.org. Click-through and hover over links to 'ANS' coins to see images.
- Coin from Domuztepe in Turkey as hosted by OpenContext. Click-through and hover over the link to "Antiochia/Theoupolis".
- Pelagios is collecting references to ancient sites. This list of references to sites in OpenContext uses awld.js to show previews of each object.
- The blog has installed the library. Look at the end of the post "Open Access Journal: Histria antiqua" for a link to the Pleiades page for "Histria".
Recognized URIs
Hovering over any of the links below will show a "popup" with information drawn from the linked web page.
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.