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Collecting Places — by Sean Gillies — last modified Mar 17, 2012 03:18 PM

How to save, tend, and share collections of places

Citation of external resources — by Sean Gillies — last modified Feb 03, 2012 08:29 PM

How Pleiades considers and models citation of external resources

Geography Terms and Abbreviations — by Sean Gillies — last modified Jan 17, 2012 01:20 PM

Greek and Latin geographic terms often appear in the titles of places or in their names, sometimes in abbreviated form. Those used in the Barrington Atlas and in Pleiades are defined here.

Can I add a link to a Wikipedia or DBpedia article? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 06:47 PM

Yes, please do! The structure and extent of Wikipedia content has a significant and growing effect on the way search engines and other systems organize results and structure other content. There are some easy steps you can take to add a DBpedia reference to a Pleiades place resource that will help our content show up in, and have a useful influence on, the emerging graph of ancient world data (and the web as a whole).

Modifying titles and descriptions of places — by Sean Gillies — last modified Dec 03, 2011 02:57 PM

A quick tutorial on improving the titles and descriptions of places

I see a map for a place, but how do I get the coordinates? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 10:17 PM

Coordinate information is stored in Pleiades "location" resources, which are grouped inside the "place" resources, so you need to drill down.

How do I indicate origin and accuracy of new location coordinates? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 04:28 PM

 

Does Pleiades record modern names? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 10:19 PM

Yes we do, and here's how to search for them, add them, and find them in the downloads files.

I'd like to add a link to an excavation website – where does it belong? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 04:27 PM

Specifically, should I add it as a "Reference" from a place resource page or from a location resource page?

How do I propose a different (better) pair of coordinates for an existing place? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 04:26 PM

 

How do I add a new reference (link, article, book) to an existing place resource? — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 03, 2011 04:24 PM

 

How to Get Pleiades Data — by Tom Elliott — last modified Dec 15, 2011 01:01 PM

Are you looking for a way to export our data to use in a spreadsheet, geographic information system (GIS) or in some other way? Check out our downloads section.

Technical Introduction to Places — by Sean Gillies — last modified Dec 03, 2011 10:19 PM

What are these places and how are they related to names and locations?

How to follow comments — by Sean Gillies — last modified Aug 24, 2011 06:46 PM

Comments are now searchable and followable via RSS

Connecting places — by Sean Gillies — last modified Dec 05, 2011 04:10 PM

Geographically connected places can be linked together even if their exact coordinates are unknown.

Getting Started — by Sean Gillies — last modified Dec 03, 2011 03:07 PM

15 minutes is all it takes to get started as a Pleiades contributor

Daily KML dumps — by Sean Gillies — last modified Apr 21, 2011 11:17 AM

The whole enchilada as KMZ archives

Navigating name resources — by Sean Gillies — last modified Mar 10, 2011 05:38 PM

On an effort to improve discoverability and navigability of name resources

KML formatting for search results — by Sean Gillies — last modified Mar 08, 2011 12:06 PM

Search results can now be had as KML and viewed in Google Earth

Spatial parameters for the site search form — by Sean Gillies — last modified Feb 25, 2011 01:34 PM

Public spatial search of published Pleiades content