Perseus Pelagios Compliancy

Perseus is happy to announce that our Pleiades annotations are now fully Pelagios-compliant and are viewable in the new Pelagios API.

The Perseus annotations are browseable at
http://pelagios.dme.ait.ac.at/api/datasets/21e48d8ca46f666467b81a551fbb1cb

Our first step, publishing annotations identifying occurrences of ancient places represented by Pleiades URIs in the Perseus texts, was described in a Pelagios blog post last year.

Subsequently, we have made some refinements to the process which included:

• Following the Pelagios standard for referencing Pleiades places using the #this locator on the Pleiades URIs.
• Simplifying labeling on the annotations.
• As part of a wider effort at Perseus to better support Linked Open Data and CTS standards, referencing the Perseus text annotation targets using stable URIs in the data.perseus.org namespace, leveraging CTS URNs. E.g.:

  http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLang:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.149

• Publishing the annotations themselves at resolvable URIs which more accurately reflect the hierarchy of the occurrences both within the texts, and within the annotation datasets. E.g.:

  http://data.perseus.org/annotations/occur/places:pleiades/urn:cts:greekLang:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1#5

• Publishing a VoID file to describe the annotation datasets at http://data.perseus.org/annotations/occur/places:pleiades/void.ttl 

All of which contribute to enabling some very cool linking possibilities, as demonstrated by the Pelagios API: