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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.
Pleiades Community Time: 16 December 2010
A chance to chat about current capabilities and future plans
Three New FAQs: user accounts and passwords
Do you need one and what to do if you lose the information.
New FAQ: User Profiles
How to modify
Pleiades Review Party: 20 August 2013
UPDATE: Starting a half hour earlier. Current and prospective editors, reviewers, and other community members are invited.
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