Pleiades Project Blog
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Navigating name resources
On an effort to improve discoverability and navigability of name resources
Linked Data for Pleiades Places
RDF representations of places and a complete RDF dump make Pleiades ready to join the Linked Open Data Cloud
Daily KML dumps
The whole enchilada as KMZ archives
1600 new places from the Barrington Atlas
Along with coordinate improvements for another ~70 existing places
New landing page for places
A new and improved landing page for the folder of places and a technical introduction have been added
Coordinate upgrades for Mediterranean coast of France and NE Spain
Arelate–Massalia, Colonia Forum Iulii–Albingaunum, and Hispania Tarraconensis
Site downtime Wed Sep 21 22:00 UTC
Approximately 1 hour
Upgrade completion
We're now running Plone 3.3.5 with the latest security patch and the site is again read-write
Connecting places
Geographically connected places can be linked together even if their exact coordinates are unknown.
First locations for unnamed features
127 unamed DARMC features have been reconciled with Pleiades
Spatial parameters for the site search form
Public spatial search of published Pleiades content
A letter to Pleiades users about privacy
Let's talk about privacy
459 place and location updates
Manual reconciliation of unnamed objects yields more coordinate improvements
Coordinates upgrades for Ephesus, Illyricum
Latest results in the reward program