Linked Open Greek Pottery

Linked open data methodologies have tremendous potential in facilitating data interoperability, aggregation, and analysis. With lessons learned in the development of Nomisma.org, a collaborative project dedicated to the definition of numismatic concepts in the semantic web, the authors have endeavored to apply these methodologies to the field of Greek pottery, through Kerameikos.org. While several thesauri that contain pottery concepts have been published online, not all employ linked data, and none of them are "five star" linked data, as defined by Berners-Lee. This paper discusses the development of a discipline-specific thesaurus which serves as a bridge between existing vocabulary systems, the open source XForms/REST/SPARQL framework for its publication, and the development of web-based tools to analyse and visualise pottery data aggregated from the Getty Museum and British Museum as a proof of concept of the utility of Kerameikos.org as a research tool for Greek pottery.