Using Pleiades Data
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Brian Turner, Tom Elliott
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Jul 07, 2016 08:42 PM
Everything in Pleiades is free to reuse under the terms of an open license. Here's how to do things like search, browse, and map our content; how to download our data for use in a GIS; how to cite Pleiades content in a paper or web page.
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New users will benefit from reading our Conceptual Overview in order to familiarize themselves with the structural and conceptual underpinnings of Pleiades.
The list below provides links to a variety of help documents addressing various aspects of Pleiades use. Please send us an email if there's a topic you'd like to see added here.
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Conceptual Overview | An introduction to Pleiades and the types of information resources it contains. |
| Do I need to login to see published Pleiades content? | No. Anyone with a web browser and access to the World-Wide Web can access all published Pleiades content. |
| How to search for things in Pleiades | Learn how to find a place by its ancient or modern name, and in other ways. |
| Using Advanced Search | In addition to our ubiquitous "Live Search", Pleiades provides a sophisticated "Advanced Search" form for more complicated queries. Here are some tips for using... |
| How to cite Pleiades | Guidance on citing either the entire gazetteer or individual entries. |
| Download the Full Dataset | Get complete and regular shapshots of all Pleiades resources, available in multiple formats including CSV, KML, and RDF. |
| What are Pleiades URIs? | Pleiades uses Uniform Resource Identifiers to identify (uniquely and permanently) each distinct place, location, name, and connection in the gazetteer. |
| Is there a big map showing all the places? | Pleiades has a couple of internal options for maps with multiple places on them. Some of our partners also provide other options. |
| Getting Coordinates for a Place | Coordinate information is stored in Pleiades "location" resources, which are grouped inside the "place" resources. We also calculate "representative points" (ce... |
| Tracking changes in Pleiades | Pleiades provides a number of ways for keeping track of what's recently been added to or changed in Pleiades. Here's an overview. |
| Citation Types | This document explains the various citation types that are assigned to bibliographic references in Pleiades places, names, locations, and connections. |
| Open Pleiades CSV in QGIS | A quick, step-by-step tutorial on opening the Pleiades "latest places" CSV dump in QGIS. |
| Representative Points | What are "representative points" in Pleiades, what are they good for and how does one get access to them? |
| Controlled Vocabularies | A number of the data fields in Pleiades are governed by controlled vocabularies, lists of terms and their definitions that constitute the only valid values for ... |