Projects and Partners
PALAEOPORTOLOGY: Ancient coastal settlements, ports and harbours
A guest post by Arthur de Graauw in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning his project, started in 2010, that collects, identifies and locates ancient ports and harbours from Iceland to Sri Lanka. Project data can be downloaded for reuse in spreadsheet form and KML for Google Earth.
Pleiades dataset API wrapper
A guest post by Daniele Fusi in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series describing a simple command-line interface tool for importing Pleiades JSON data into a relational database, indexing it, and providing an application programming interface service to other applications, enabling them to lookup places with a combination of search parameters.
Pliny the Elder's World
A guest post by Brian Turner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series describing this new English translation of Pliny’s geographic books, as well as an associated collection of maps and digital data linking its contents to Pleiades.
World Historical Gazetteer
A guest post by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series in which they describe the open source and open content WHG project, which spans human history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century and provides tools for uploading and building datasets, creating place collections, and sharing and using example lesson plans.