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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.
Trismegistos and Pleiades places
376 new matches between Trismegistos and Pleiades places
Content Workshop (Online): Friday, 20 April 2012
Between 10am and noon U.S. Central Daylight Time
Pleiades Content Workshop, Thursday 5 April 2012
Beginners welcome! Participate in person in New York, or online.
A letter to Pleiades users about privacy
Let's talk about privacy
Giving credit where credit is due
The Pleiades website now provides a credits page that highlights the broad range of community contributions to its code and content while endeavoring to implement emerging best practice for fair and complete citation in digital humanities publications projects.
Barrington Atlas Bibliography
The complete bibliography is now online.
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.

