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.
| 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.