Concepts and Features
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These documents explain the design of Pleiades and the thinking behind it.
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| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Conceptual Overview | An introduction to Pleiades and the types of information resources it contains. |
| Workflow: The Pleiades editorial process | The Pleiades website facilitates review of new and revised content using a publication workflow. This document describes that process. |
| Blog Post: What's an un-GIS? (2010) | Reprint of a 2010 blog post by Sean Gillies, which was also distributed as a handout at Digital Humanities 2011. |
| What are Pleiades URIs? | Pleiades uses Uniform Resource Identifiers to identify (uniquely and permanently) each distinct place, location, name, and connection in the gazetteer. |
| Citation of external resources | How Pleiades considers and models citation of external resources |
| Art and Graphics | About Pleiades artwork and imagery |
| Technical Introduction to Places | What are these places and how are they related to names and locations? |
| Geography Terms and Abbreviations | Greek and Latin geographic terms often appear in the titles of places or in their names, sometimes in abbreviated form. Those used in the Barrington Atlas and i... |
| Precision and Accuracy in Geolocation | Information about the horizontal accuracy and precision of Pleiades location content. |
| With all the work of the Barrington Atlas reflecting coastline changes why not use a base that reflects that? | |
| Pleiades and Linked Open Data | Pleiades is a leading participant in the effort to create and sustain a subgraph of linked open data about the ancient world. |
| Does Pleiades record modern names? | Yes we do, and here's how to search for them, add them, and find them in the downloads files. |
| What Other Projects and Scholars are Using Pleiades? | |
| What classes of "object" are treated by the Pleiades data model? | |
| Pleiades Software Components | Information about the open-source software that powers Pleiades. |
| Is Pleiades a GIS or WebGIS? | |
| Are there any plans in the future for new visualization tools? | Maybe, for example, side by side comparisons of data sets? |
| Where did all the content in Pleiades come from? | |
| Is Pleiades like Google Maps or Google Earth? | |
| 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... |