Pleiades Project Blog
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Pleiades also has a GoToSocial account in the Fediverse that you can visit in your browser, follow with an ActivityPub-capable application at @pleiades@botsinbox.net, or subscribe using RSS.Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 December 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 390 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Catherine Bouras, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Thomas Seidler, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (2-9 December 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 275 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle and Gabriel Mckee.
Last Two Weeks in Pleiades (18 November - 2 December 2024)
Over the past two weeks the Pleiades editorial college published 13 new and 401 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, R. Scott Smith and Scott Vanderbilt.
Last Week in Pleiades (11-18 November 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 202 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (4-11 November 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 288 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker and Tom Elliott.
Pelagios
A guest post by Elton Barker in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning Pelagios, a long-running initiative that links information online through common references to places, time periods, and people.
Trismegistos
A guest post by Herbert Verreth in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series, concerning the geographic components of the Trismegistos platform, which aims to provide information and stable identifiers for toponyms in ancient documentary and literary sources across languages.
Last Week in Pleiades (28 October - 4 November 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 148 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling and Gabriel McKee.
Last Two Weeks in Pleiades (14-28 October 2024)
During the last two weeks the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 389 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Charlotte Roueché, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
Last Week in Pleiades (7-14 October 2024)
Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 177 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Jonathan Fu, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.
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.