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Elton Barker, The Open UniversityElton Barker, The Open UniversityTwitter: @eltonteb, @pelagiosprojectTwitter: @eltonteb, @pelagiosproject

2 June, 2012 | The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York

Linking data| Don’t Unify the Model – Annotate!

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pleiades:579885

(Athenae)

pleiades:570685

(Sparta)

Linked data| There and back again

Exploring Relations betweenPlaces through Data

Exploring Relations betweenData through Place

http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/https://github.com/pelagios/pelagios-cookbook/wiki

Linked data | Placebook

http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis/index.html#index

Linked data friendly| Mashups

http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/

A paradigm shift?| Scholarly linking

HestiaGAP

Pelagios

Elton Barker

SPQR

Arachne

Rainer Simon

Kate Byrne

Eric Kansa

Nick RabinowitzChris Pelling

Stefan Bouzarovski

Leif Isaksen

Perseus

CLAROS

Pleiades

Ure Museum

Nomisma

Open Context

Fasti online

A paradigm shift?| Scholarly linking

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Conferre| To bring together

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“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

So what?| Linking the Ancient World

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Herodotus| Linking the Ancient World

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