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July 2016 in Pleiades
During the month of July 2016, the Pleiades editors published new and/or updated information resources for 6 places, 11 locations, and 32 names.
Downtime Complete
This morning's "read only" downtime is now complete.
Downtime: Wednesday, 13 July 2016
At 8:00 a.m. US Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, 13 July 2016, the Pleiades website will be in read-only status for a feature upgrade.
Last week in Pleiades (June 27 - July 10, 2016)
Bonus edition: two weeks of updates!
New in Help: Modifying an existing resource
This new help topic (complete with up-to-date screenshots) provides step-by-step instructions for creating a personal working copy of a published place, name, location, or connection resource; modifying and saving the working copy; and submitting the working copy for review.
New in Help: Conceptual Overview
This document describes the information structure of the gazetteer and explains what we mean when we say "place", "name", or "location".
Downtime: Tuesday, 5 July 2016
At 8:30 a.m. US Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, 5 July 2016, the Pleiades website will be in read-only status for a feature upgrade.
Recent Improvements (May 2016)
On May 13th, 2016, the Pleiades 3 development team deployed a package of upgrades to the Pleiades website. This blog post summarizes the changes.
Pleiades maintenance between 12 and 21 May 2016
The Pleiades 3 development team will be conducting software maintenance on the Pleiades website between now and the 21st of May.
Places, Spaces, Sites: Mapping Critical Intersections in Digital Humanities
The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas has issued a call for proposals for the 2016 DH Forum, which will take place on Saturday, October 1, following a full day of (gratis) Digital Humanities workshops on Friday, September 30.
Sarah Bond to Lead Workshop at UVA
On Tuesday, March 15, 2016, Associate Editor Sarah Bond will lead a two-hour workshop on Pleiades at the University of Virginia.
AWMC Announces Conference Program and Workshop
The Ancient World Mapping Center will host a conference on "Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History", 7-9 April 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The full schedule has now been announced, as well as a hands-on workshop introducing the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) aimed at students and faculty in History, Classics, Archaeology, and related disciplines.
Maintenance Downtime
Pleiades will be down for routine maintenance on Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 8pm US Mountain Standard Time.
Request for Comment: New Editorial Guidelines
A draft of a new policy document has been posted on Google Docs for review and comment by community members. Please help us perfect it.
Pleiades in San Francisco (January 2016)
Members of the Pleiades team will be in San Francisco, CA from 6-10 January, 2016 during the Joint Annual Meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies. Would you like to participate in a Pleiades workshop during that time? Please let us know!
AWMC to Host "Mapping the Past" Conference
The Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has just released a call for papers for a conference, to be held on April 8-9, 2016, on the applications of mapping and GIS to ancient history.
Elizabeth Robinson joins editorial board
Pleiades has a new associate editor: Elizabeth Robinson
Mapping Spartacus: Using Pleiades in the Classroom
Pleiades provides geospatial data to dozens of digital projects, but it can also be used as a pedagogical tool in the classroom. Students in Sarah Bond's 'Ancient Financial Crisis' class used Pleiades data and the AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte tool in order to make maps of the sites involved in the Third Servile War (73-71 BCE) led in part by Spartacus, and then mapped the course of the slave rebellion through the terrain of Republican Italy.
PhD opportunity on ‘Abstract Mapping for Ancient and Contemporary Cities’
New opportunity at the University of Kent, with potential for funding.
AWMC Launches Online Strabo's Geography Map
This interactive web application was designed to accompany Duane W. Roller’s new English translation of Strabo, just out from Cambridge University Press.