Editorial Handbook

This handbook is a work in progress, aimed at replacing the out-of-date Editorial Guidelines. The latter document is still available, and may provide contributors, reviewers, and editors with useful information as this handbook is updated. When a section of the old Guidelines has been superseded by this handbook, that section is removed and a link made to the corresponding new handbook section.

Conceptual Overview

Pleiades uses the terms "place," "name," "location," and "connection" in specific, deliberate ways. Understanding the definitions of each is essential to making the most of Pleiades, especially as a contributor of new and updated content. A separate document -- the Pleiades Conceptual Overview -- explains the distinctions. Reading it first is highly recommended.

Database Structure

The Pleiades system documents and describes each of these four conceptual entities (places, names, locations, and entities) using a corresponding information resource. Information resources are bundles of structured data that are similar in function to records in a database or index cards in a card file. Each place resource contains the name, location, and connection resources with which it is associated. This encapsulation is expressed in the layout of information on the Pleiades website, and in the hierarchical structure of the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs: web addresses) assigned to each resource. Each place resource has a corresponding web page in Pleiades, and each place page links to individual pages for all the name, location, and connection resources that have been associated with it.

The structure and implementation of the Pleiades database are described in more detail in the Pleiades Data Model document.

Topical Guidelines