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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 (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.
Last Week in Pleiades (10-17 June 2024)
Last week, the editorial college published 30 new and 227 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Ella Arnold, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Amelia Grissom, Noah Kaye, Thomas Landvatter, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, and Richard Talbert.
Call for Pleiades-related Project Descriptions
For the first time in years, the managing editor intends to create and curate a "partners and projects" section on the Pleiades website. Here's how you can get your project featured.
Changelog: May 2024
During the month of May 2024, the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 707 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Lucas Butler, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rune Rattenborg, and Thomas Seidler.
Last Week in Pleiades (3-10 June 2024)
Last week, the editorial college published 7 new and 166 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Niels Christofferson, Tom Elliott, Andrew Harris, Brady Kiesling, Thomas Landvatter, Chris de Lisle, and Gabriel McKee.
Summer Training 2024
Free summer training sessions on using the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places are now open for registration!
Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 May 2024)
Last week the editorial college published 6 new and 190 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, and Rune Rattenborg.
Last Week in Pleiades (29 April - 6 May 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new and 178 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, and Chris de Lisle.
Changelog: April 2024
The Pleiades gazetteer change log for April 2024 has been posted: 83 new and 730 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning, Gabriel Mckee, Jonathan Prag, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert, Clifflena Tiah, Georgios Tsolakis, and Valeria Vitale.
Last Week in Pleiades (22-29 April 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 19 new and 185 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Richard Talbert.
Last Week in Pleiades (15-22 April 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 231 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (8-15 April 2024)
In the last week, the Pleiades editorial college has published 10 new and 150 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Clifflena Tiah.
New Website Features: Zotero Reference Assist
A software development iteration in February 2024 with our long-time contractor, Jazkarta, Inc. has introduced some new features for users of the Pleiades website. This post introduces enhancements that assist content contributors in creating and modifying bibliographic references by leveraging the Zotero citation management system and its web application programming interface.
Last Week in Pleiades (1-8 April 2024)
In the last week, the Pleiades editorial college has published 33 new and 204 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Sean Manning, Gabriel McKee, Jonathan Prag, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Georgios Tsolakis, and Valeria Vitale.