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Pleiades Review Party: 12 August 2013
Current and prospective editors, reviewers, and other community members are invited.
Review Party
Current and prospective editors and reviewers are invited to gather to review content.
Pleiades site release scheduled 2013-07-09
Release 4.0.3 fixes a regression in RDF representations of places and data dumps.
New page and feed for Pleiades site status and service announcements
If the Pleiades website is slow or offline, check http://pleiades-site-status.tumblr.com/ for the reasons why
Linking Pleiades to OpenStreetMap
Let's make more links from Pleiades to monuments and sites in OpenStreetMap.
Resolving duplicate places
We've figured out a new way to deal with duplicate places in Pleiades and will describe it here.
Barrington Atlas Bibliography
The complete bibliography is now online.
Site catalog reindexing 2012-11-07
The Pleiades site will be read-only from 3pm-10pm EST
Site security patches applied
Plone Hotfix 20121106 (Nov 06, 2012) was applied this morning.
Two new Pleiades efforts to track
Just an FYI and an opportunity to highlight the new search maps again and talk about how users can create new tags.
Improvements to the location editing form
Adding a map of the editing location and support for simple latitude and longitude entry
New maps for search results
Maps are intended to help users disambiguate locatable content
Categorization of unlocated places
We've categorized several hundred unlocated places
Duplicate places in Pleiades linked data
Resolved duplicate places are now identified in our RDF datasets
Pleiades linked data code and issue tracking
On GitHub
RFO, PECS, and Pleiades places
521 new matches between Regnum Francorum Online, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, and Pleiades
Pleiades Place API development
Issue tracking on GitHub now
DARMC matching coordinates import completed
The remaining 11655 matching coordinates have been imported and published
Evolution of the Pleiades brand
We have a new icon for Pleiades and partner sites
Map interface improvements: part 2
Less obtrusive representations of roughly located places are in production