Pleiades Project Blog
You can use a feed reader to subscribe to the Atom feed of this blog.
Pleiades also has a Mastodon account in the Fediverse that you can visit in your browser, follow with an ActivityPub-capable application at @pleiades@botsin.space, or subscribe using RSS.Last Week in Pleiades (30 September - 7 October 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 199 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Wikidata Wednesdays
Alignments between Wikidata and Pleiades (and other gazetteers) have been growing for some time, but there's still plenty of work to do.
Last Week in Pleiades (23-30 September 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new and 113 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anthony Durham, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Karen Rubinson, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (16-23 September 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 130 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 September 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 114 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, James Cowey, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Philip Kenrick, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, John Muccigrosso, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Last 9 days in Pleiades (1-9 September 2024)
Since the beginning of September, the Pleiades editorial college has published 6 new and 163 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Matthias Grawehr, Carolin Johansson, Yaniv Korman, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso and Thomas Seidler.
Last Month in Pleiades (August 2024)
Last month the Pleiades editorial college published 41 new and 471 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Jamie Novotny, Philipp Pilhofer, Rune Rattenborg, María Jesús Redondo, Thomas Seidler, Richard Talbert, and Scott Vanderbilt.
What Pleiades Does: La Alcudia
An example of the way in which iterative improvements and additions to Pleiades build on earlier work and produce gazetteer entries that can speed scholars and students to the next steps in their research or other projects.
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.
Last Week in Pleiades (22-29 July 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new and 128 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, and John Muccigrosso.
Last Week in Pleiades (15-22 July 2024)
Between 15 and 22 July 2024, the Pleiades editorial college published 17 new and 254 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Yuyao Liu, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Rune Rattenborg, and Jason M. Silverman.
Last Week in Pleiades (8-15 July 2024)
Last week the editorial college published 55 new and 266 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Iulian Bîrzescu, Tom Elliott, Ryosuke Furui, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Stanisław Ludwiński, Adam Rabinowitz, Rune Rattenborg, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Francis Tassaux, Clifflena Tiah, and Athanasia Varveri.
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.
Last Week in Pleiades (1-8 July 2024)
Last week, the editorial college published 33 new and 123 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Martina Filosa, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (24 June - 1 July 2024)
Last week, the editorial college published 39 new and 138 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Martina Filosa, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
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.
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.
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.
Last Week in Pleiades (17-24 June 2024)
Last week, the editorial college published 28 new and 107 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, R. Scott Smith, and Richard Talbert.