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Pleiades Hack Day: 21 November 2011
Participants will meet virtually throughout the day to work on improving titles and descriptions for prominent and well-known places in Pleiades.
New FAQ: Pleiades Internet Relay Chat Channel
How to use IRC to connect with other members of the Pleiades community.
Two New FAQs: Modern Names and Accuracy Assessments
How to add and modify these important bits of information.
New FAQ: Links to excavation websites
Where these belong in Pleiades
Planning a Pleiades Hack Day
An opportunity to work together to improve titles and descriptions for our place resources. Volunteers needed!
New FAQs: adding new references/links and better coordinates
Two of the most common interests of active community members are now provided with better guidance.
Volunteer Opportunities: Improving Data
Pleiades needs your help!
Content Improvement Projects and Call for Volunteers
We've added a new section of the website to enable community members to suggest, organize and volunteer for projects to improve or expand Pleiades content.
Community Meetup: Wednesday, 19 October, 4:00p.m. UCT
Tom Elliott will initiate a Google+ Hangout for all interested Pleiades community members
Feeds of Flickr Photos Depicting Pleiades Places
Linking photos on Flickr to place resources in Pleiades
Hurricane Irene
Pleiades will not be affected
Toponyms in Demotic and Hieratic
A new publication from Pleiades partner project Trismegistos
Semiannual Report Published (May 2011)
Achievements and progress over the preceding 6 months.
Time Periods for Ancient Egypt
Pleiades now supports several additional time periods for names and locations in ancient Egypt
Regular archives of nightly exports
Quarterly, long-term, third-party digital archiving
Draft "How-to" for Review: Add Better Coordinates to an Existing Place
For those interested in adding new/better coordinates to existing Pleiades places, there is now an (I hope) accurate step-by-step outline that I'll soon turn into a full script for a screencast
Zeugma at Pleiades and ISAW
In honor of Kutal Gorkay's upcoming talk at ISAW (Recent Archaeological Research in Zeugma: March 21, 2011), I've taken the opportunity to update the Zeugma resource at Pleiades.
Adopt a place for Valentine's day
Pleiades places are looking for love and this year you can give it to them (it never hurts to get ready for Valentine's Day early). It will only take a few minutes of your time.
Community Time Report
Notes and chat transcript published.
Quarterly Report for December 2010 published
The project team summarizes recent developments across the effort.