New Feature: Pleiades Sidebar for Linked Data

Pleiades was the first "ancient world" web resource to become part of the "Linked Open Data Cloud". Interconnection with other online databases, gazetteers, and information sources was an early, and has been a continuing, emphasis of the editors and our contributor community (see "History", below).

For a number of years, we were able to provide users with access not only to the resources Pleiades links to in its "reference" sections, but also to the links other projects were making to Pleiades resources. This was achieved via the "Pelagios Portlet", which appeared in the right-hand column of Pleiades place pages beginning in 2013. The portlet depended on an external, demonstration application called "Peripleo", which was developed and operated by the Pelagios network until its funding ran out and Peripleo was shut down. Accordingly, the "Pelagios Portlet" was removed from the Pleiades website last year, since it no longer could provide any information to users.

We have now replaced the old "Pelagios Portlet" with a new "Linked Data" portlet in the Pleiades sidebar. You can read more about what it does on the new "Linked Data Sidebar" help page. And you can see it in action on a growing number of Pleiades place pages like these:

• Lugdunum
• Amphitheater of the Three Gauls
• Aqueduct of the Gier
• Gallo-Roman baths
• Odeon of Lyon
• Roman theater of Fourvière
• Sanctuary of Cybèle
• Milecastle 46 (Carvoran)
• Pydna
• Roman theater at Sparta
• Satricum
• Thermon

History: Pleiades and Linked Data

Here are some links to past blog post and help pages dealing with Linked Data and Pleiades:

• 15 August 2011: "Results from partner project PELAGIOS" (blog post)
• 24 October 2011: "Pleiades and Linked Open Data" (help)
• 07 November 2011: "Pleiades, PELAGIOS and Linked Open Data" (blog post)
• 16 November 2011: "Linked Data for Pleiades Places" (blog post)