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Geo Prime Software Releases
The Pleiades Project is pleased to announce its second batch of open source software releases.
The Pleiades Project is pleased to announce its second batch of open source software releases.
- PleiadesGeocoder 0.6
- PleiadesOpenLayers 0.6
- GeographicEntityLite 0.1
Pleiades is an international research network and associated web portal and content management system devoted to the study of ancient geography. Funding for the creation of this software was provided by a grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov).
An overview of the Pleiades software is available at
http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades/wiki/PleiadesSoftware
Introduction
This group of releases builds on the achievements of our first releases of PleiadesGeocoder and PleiadesOpenLayers (0.5, dated 23 August 2006), with upgrades to both of these products and the debut of a third: GeographicEntityLite. These three products together provide geospatial functionality to Plone sites, with content types for geographic entities (i.e., point features) and geographic names, together with facilities for dynamic mapping and toponym geocoding.
Demonstration
This release coincides with the Pleiades Project's "Geo Prime" milestone, which was designed to demonstrate, in Plone, the core geographic capabilities needed by the Project. Working copies of the 0.6 release products have been installed on the Project's demonstration server, where they may be seen "in operation" (see: http://icon.stoa.org/pleiades-beta). A demonstration dataset, derived from materials developed by the American Philological Association's Classical Atlas Project (1988-2000) have been uploaded there for demonstrations purposes.
Comments and suggestions are welcome via the Pleiades Software list (see http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades/wiki/PleiadesSoftwareList).