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Now Available: Pleiades Datasets 3.0

Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Apr 04, 2023 02:04 PM
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Free, open, and platform-neutral: updates and additions to published content of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places between 12 October 2020 and 4 April 2023.

This is a package of data derived from the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. It is used for archival and redistribution purposes and is likely to be less up-to-date than the live data at https://pleiades.stoa.org.

Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license. It publishes not just for individual human users, but also for search engines and for the widening array of computational research and visualization tools that support humanities teaching and research.

Pleiades is a continuously published scholarly reference work for the 21st century. We embrace the new paradigm of citizen humanities, encouraging contributions from any knowledgeable person and doing so in a context of pervasive peer review. Pleiades welcomes your contribution, no matter how small, and we have a number of useful tasks suitable for volunteers of every interest.

What's new since 2.3 (12 October 2020):

  • 2,655 new and 10,222 updated place resources.
  • The complete bibliographic library cited in references throughout the dataset.
  • Monthly changelogs in HTML format since 2009.
  • Some metrics for tracking data quality efforts.
  • CSV files tested in QGIS (likely better than the original CSV package, which is now deprecated, for most use cases).
  • Deprecation of legacy CSV export.

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This package is available from the following third-party hosts: