Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation

Are there particular journals, monograph series, or other publications that you routinely or periodically check on? Do these sometimes include work that relates to the history, archaeology, linguistics, or mythology of spaces and places in the ancient world? Would you be willing to add a modest, collaborative, Pleiades-minded step or two to your process when you encounter one of these? If so, read on.

Pleiades is hungry for new bibliographic references. Sometimes adding a new reference to an existing Pleiades place resource helps some future colleague by getting them from their search result to the latest literature quickly. Sometimes new scholarly publications correct or inflect what we have in Pleiades, providing more accurate or nuanced information to our downstream users. Not infrequently, a new publication highlights a site that’s not currently covered in Pleiades, but that should be added.

I’d like to start a community effort to address these needs and associated practices with the goal of making it easy and common for Pleiades community members to make such interventions in the gazetteer. If you’d be interested in discussing the idea and exploring a potential role for yourself in what emerges, please let me know by email at pleiades.admin@nyu.edu. I’ll be back in touch with all who respond in 3-4 weeks to schedule discussions to explore next steps.

Sincerely,
Tom