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From http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2014/03/21/announcing-the-perseus-lexical-inventory-an-open-linked-data-set

Many different linguistic services and tools are dependent on lexical information as it is commonly found in Latin and Greek dictionaries. Most of these applications rely on their own implementation of dictionaries, stem databases etc. but there is no centralized open-access resource on which these services can draw for supporting data. The Perseus Digital Library is releasing its lexical data as an open linked data set, starting with Latin and to be followed by Greek, in the hopes that it may eventually become such a resource.

The core of the Perseus Lexical Inventory is a CITE collection of Lexical Entity URIs. Each Lexical Entity identifier has associated properties including a normalized form of the lexical entity (or lemma) and a short definition. The accompanying linked data set includes links between the Lexical Entity URIs, morpheus lemmas, and entries in the Lewis and Short lexicons on Perseus, Alpheios and Logeion.

Learn more about this new resource at http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2014/03/21/announcing-the-perseus-lexical-inventory-an-open-linked-data-set