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Maintenance Downtime: May 29, 2014
Pleiades will be down for approximately an hour tonight.
New Pleiades Plus Matches Pleiades with GeoNames
Pleiades Plus is an experimental machine alignment between Pleiades place resources and content in the GeoNames Gazetteer.
Richer Names Listings for Places
Pleiades place pages now provide more summary information for associated names.
Studying Identities in Rome and its Empire
A call for papers has been issued for a proposed colloquium sponsored by the Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in New Orleans. The deadline for 500-word abstracts is February 21, 2014.
Geographies of the Ancient City: Lessons to Learn from Diachronic Comparisons
A second call for papers has just been issued for this session at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (London, August 2014). Deadline for 300-word proposals is February 3, 2014.
The Ancient Near East in Pleiades
We have recently accessioned some data derived from the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO) by an external project. Here is the status of the work, some context, and a call for volunteers.
Review Parties in December and January
Several review parties have been scheduled for December 2013 and January 2014. If you're interested in helping the editorial college clear the review backlog and publish new, high-quality information in Pleiades, please consider joining us.
Pleiades Downtime: Thursday, 21 November 2013
From 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. US Mountain Standard Time
5 September Review Party Canceled
Due to conflicts for a majority of the editorial board, tomorrow's review party has been canceled. Stay tuned for announcements about future events.
Last Week in Pleiades (9 August 2013)
51 new or updated content items have been published in the past week.
Last Week in Pleiades
The all-volunteer editorial review team published 57 new or updated content items. We also set up Facebook, Twitter, and Feedburner accounts, as well as adding support for events and events listings to the site.
Pleiades is now on Twitter
Better late than never...
Pleiades is now on Facebook
You asked for it...
Bob Consoli's "placename lookup" critique
How to use our downloadable CSV files most effectively.
How to track changes in Pleiades
I was recently asked on Facebook if there is "a new places feed from Pleiades". The answer is: yes, and then some. Here are the details.
New Help Topic: Using Advanced Search
In addition to our ubiquitous "Live Search", Pleiades provides a sophisticated "Advanced Search" form for more complicated queries. Here are some tips for using it.
Adam Rabinowitz joins editorial board
Pleiades has a new associate editor!
Updated Citation Guide
Explanatory notes have been added for some existing entries, and several areas that were marked "to be added" have now been completed.
New Help Topic: Add a Name
The latest guidance how to add new name resources to Pleiades.
Updated help concept: "What are connections?"
Direct place-to-place relationships allowing the construction of geographic hierarchies and networks. Rivers to seas, roads to towns, towns to ethnic regions or provinces.