Tracking changes in Pleiades

The "Recently Modified" Listing

Select "home" in the menu on any page to visit the Pleiades Home Page. There you'll see a map of "Recently Modified Resources". In the text accompanying the map, under the heading "About Pleiades", you'll find a number of links, one of which takes you to a page listing the "most recently modified" resources (i.e., our Changes page).

There are links at the top of the listing on the Changes page to two other formats Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Atom+GeoRSS (so you can view those changes in a feed reader or other feed-enabled piece of software). The contents of the Changes feed (in all formats) is conditioned on your login state and permissions (anonymous users will only see published content) and it summarizes anything that's been changed (places, names, locations, etc.).

Search Results

If you want a more tailored feed, you can get an HTML page or corresponding feed in either KML or RSS. Just visit the Advanced Search Form, enter your parameters of interest, click the "search" button and wait for the results. At the bottom of your results page, you should find links to the "always updated" feed versions, which you can grab for other uses. Here's an example listing all places published in the last month :

• Pleiades places published in the last month (HTML view)
• Pleiades places published in the last month (RSS feed)
• Pleiades places published in the last month (KML)

If you're interested in knowing not only when the general information about places is changed, but also when new sets of coordinates (i.e., locations) are published, then you can build a search for both locations and places (RSS, KML). If toponomy's your thing, then you might prefer to know only about newly changed and published names (RSS).

More information about how to set search parameters is available in our help documents: How to search for things in Pleiades and Using Advanced Search.

Changelogs

Each month we generate a "change log". These documents list, in human-readable form, the place resources created or modified during the preceding month. You can access these web pages by browsing the changelog directory hierarchy by year and month at http://atlantides.org/changelogs/.

Individual Place Resources

You can track changes to any individual place resource using the corresponding Atom feed. You'll find a link to it, as well as links to other useful formats, under the heading "Alternate Representations" on the place page. Note that the Uniform Resource Identifier for the Atom serialization of a place resource is easily constructed by appending the string "/atom" to the "canonical URI" for the place page.

Blog Posts

Of course, the Pleiades Project Blog also has an RSS feed (just blog posts, not places, names, or locations).