Projects and Partners
You can use a MANTO: A digital dataset of Greek myth
A guest post by R. Scott Smith and Greta Hawes in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning MANTO, a Linked Open Data project that models the story world of Greek myth and its impacts on the historical landscape of the Mediterranean using data curated from ancient texts and artifacts.
PALAEOPORTOLOGY: Ancient coastal settlements, ports and harbours
A guest post by Arthur de Graauw in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning his project, started in 2010, that collects, identifies and locates ancient ports and harbours from Iceland to Sri Lanka. Project data can be downloaded for reuse in spreadsheet form and KML for Google Earth.
Pelagios
A guest post by Elton Barker in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning Pelagios, a long-running initiative that links information online through common references to places, time periods, and people.
Pleiades Data Viewer
A guest post by Victor Temprano in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series about this web application that enables the user to browse and search the Pleiades dataset by name and time period, viewing all the results on a single, interactive map.
Pleiades dataset API wrapper
A guest post by Daniele Fusi in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series describing a simple command-line interface tool for importing Pleiades JSON data into a relational database, indexing it, and providing an application programming interface service to other applications, enabling them to lookup places with a combination of search parameters.
Pliny the Elder's World
A guest post by Brian Turner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series describing this new English translation of Pliny’s geographic books, as well as an associated collection of maps and digital data linking its contents to Pleiades.
Trismegistos
A guest post by Herbert Verreth in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series, concerning the geographic components of the Trismegistos platform, which aims to provide information and stable identifiers for toponyms in ancient documentary and literary sources across languages.
World Historical Gazetteer
A guest post by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series in which they describe the open source and open content WHG project, which spans human history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century and provides tools for uploading and building datasets, creating place collections, and sharing and using example lesson plans.