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Pleiades Project Blog
News from the project written by its developers and users
This blog is essential reading for contributors, editors, reviewers and staff of partner projects. It's where we'll announce site-wide projects, major maintenance work and new site or dataset features. The RSS feed for this blog is at http://pleiades.stoa.org/news/aggregator/RSS.
Milecastles project completed
We've imported the milecastle and turret data compiled by Scott Vanderbilt
Adding geographic connections to maps
Connected places now appear in maps
Eye on the sidebar: related photos from Flickr
Now showing live information about related Flickr photos
How to cite Pleiades
We've added a "suggested citation" to every place resource page in Pleiades.
Eye on the sidebar: cool new Pleiades portlets
Sean Gillies has been working to enhance the user experience. You'll see some new and useful things in the right-hand margin of Pleiades pages.
What do you want from bibliography in Pleiades?
The Barrington Atlas Map-by-Map Directories used bibliographic references for various purposes. We have inherited that bibliographic data, but have not yet implemented "full" bibliographic support in Pleiades, in part because our use case(s) for bibliography are underspecified. Help us flesh them out.
Linked Data for Barrington Atlas Grids
Pleiades often refers to Barrington Atlas grid cells and now there is supporting linked data
Linked Data for Pleiades Places
RDF representations of places and a complete RDF dump make Pleiades ready to join the Linked Open Data Cloud
New FAQ: How to view and download Pleiades coordinates
Download place KML, look inside the "location" resources within a "place" resource, or visit our downloads page.
Pleiades, PELAGIOS and Linked Open Data
Pleiades is at the center of an emerging graph — a web of data — for ancient world resources on the web.
Pleiades Hack Day: 21 November 2011
Participants will meet virtually throughout the day to work on improving titles and descriptions for prominent and well-known places in Pleiades.
New FAQ: Pleiades Internet Relay Chat Channel
How to use IRC to connect with other members of the Pleiades community.
Two New FAQs: Modern Names and Accuracy Assessments
How to add and modify these important bits of information.
Barrington Atlas Correction: Andelos
One of the goals of Pleiades is to improve upon the data recorded by the Classical Atlas Project, to include correcting mistakes and omissions. New locations for the Roman settlement of Andelos in modern Spain, and an associated dam and aqueduct, constitute a fine example of user-contributed correction.
New FAQ: Links to excavation websites
Where these belong in Pleiades
Planning a Pleiades Hack Day
An opportunity to work together to improve titles and descriptions for our place resources. Volunteers needed!
New FAQs: adding new references/links and better coordinates
Two of the most common interests of active community members are now provided with better guidance.
Volunteer Opportunities: Improving Data
Pleiades needs your help!
Content Improvement Projects and Call for Volunteers
We've added a new section of the website to enable community members to suggest, organize and volunteer for projects to improve or expand Pleiades content.
