Pleiades Project Blog
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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
Categorization of unlocated places
We've categorized several hundred unlocated places
Duplicate places in Pleiades linked data
Resolved duplicate places are now identified in our RDF datasets
Pleiades linked data code and issue tracking
On GitHub
RFO, PECS, and Pleiades places
521 new matches between Regnum Francorum Online, Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, and Pleiades
Pleiades Place API development
Issue tracking on GitHub now
DARMC matching coordinates import completed
The remaining 11655 matching coordinates have been imported and published
Pleiades at AAG 2011
Pleiades was represented in a special session on gazetteers at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Evolution of the Pleiades brand
We have a new icon for Pleiades and partner sites
Map interface improvements: part 2
Less obtrusive representations of roughly located places are in production
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