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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.
Evolution of the Pleiades brand
We have a new icon for Pleiades and partner sites
Feeds of Flickr Photos Depicting Pleiades Places
Linking photos on Flickr to place resources in Pleiades
459 place and location updates
Manual reconciliation of unnamed objects yields more coordinate improvements
Representative latitude and longitude added to daily tables
Inclusion of representative points makes simple maps easy
Praise for Pleiades spin-off software
Programmers are saying nice things about Shapely
Hurricane Irene
Pleiades will not be affected
How to follow comments
Comments are now searchable and followable via RSS
Toponyms in Demotic and Hieratic
A new publication from Pleiades partner project Trismegistos
189 place and location updates
Manual reconciliation yields more coordinate improvements
Results from partner project PELAGIOS
PELAGIOS is a JISC funded project aimed at connecting ancient world resources using Pleiades as glue
1600 new places from the Barrington Atlas
Along with coordinate improvements for another ~70 existing places
First locations for unnamed features
127 unamed DARMC features have been reconciled with Pleiades
More locations from DARMC
1793 more DARMC features have been reconciled with Pleiades places
Updated categorization of places
Hundreds of rivers, islands, lakes, capes, temples, monasteries, and monuments have been categorized
Connecting places
Geographically connected places can be linked together even if their exact coordinates are unknown.
New contributor quick start guide
Initial emphasis is on adding new appellations to existing places, with more scenarios to come
DH 2011 Poster
Clickable imagemap version of our poster for the Digital Humanities 2011
Semiannual Report Published (May 2011)
Achievements and progress over the preceding 6 months.
Time Periods for Ancient Egypt
Pleiades now supports several additional time periods for names and locations in ancient Egypt
Pleiades at AAG 2011
Pleiades was represented in a special session on gazetteers at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
