Pleiades Project Blog
You can use a feed reader to subscribe to the RSS feed of this blog. Pleiades also has a Twitter account (@PleiadesProject) and a Facebook Page. System status is automatically reported on the Pleiades Site Status Tumblr.
DH 2011 Poster
Clickable imagemap version of our poster for the Digital Humanities 2011
Adding geographic connections to maps
Connected places now appear in maps
Site search improvements
Results are more consistent across search methods
OpenID login and commenting
We are now allowing login with OpenID and have begun to turn on commenting
Trismegistos and Pleiades places
376 new matches between Trismegistos and Pleiades places
Barrington Atlas Correction: Andelos
One of the goals of Pleiades is to improve upon the data recorded by the Classical Atlas Project, to include correcting mistakes and omissions. New locations for the Roman settlement of Andelos in modern Spain, and an associated dam and aqueduct, constitute a fine example of user-contributed correction.
Pleiades spin-offs: Shapely
Our research has produced software spin-offs like the Python package named Shapely.
Coordinate upgrades for Thracia, Pergamum, and Antiochia
Latest results in the reward program
189 place and location updates
Manual reconciliation yields more coordinate improvements
KML formatting for search results
Search results can now be had as KML and viewed in Google Earth
Praise for Pleiades spin-off software
Programmers are saying nice things about Shapely
Milecastles project completed
We've imported the milecastle and turret data compiled by Scott Vanderbilt
Map 35 bibliography imported
Monitoring the editorial process: 2
Part 2 in a series of recipes for getting information about the editorial process out of Pleiades
Pleiades site upgrade 2011-02-07
The Pleiades site will be read-only from 15:00-21:00 UTC on February 7
Coordinates upgrades for Tarentum and Oasis Magna
Latest results in the reward program
Site theme and navigation changes
We hope you appreciate the cleaner layout and simpler navigation
Coordinates for contributions reward program
Here's the deal: contribute to places now and we'll prioritize coordinate upgrades for their neighborhoods
Coordinate upgrades for Latium and Campania
508 places have been relocated with coordinates from the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations