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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.
Ryan Horne Assumes Co-Managing Editor Role
The Pleiades Editorial College is pleased to announce that, concurrent with his role as Acting Director of the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ryan will work with Tom Elliott to manage the day-to-day and strategic operational aspects of Pleiades.
Sarah Bond joins editorial board
Pleiades has a new associate editor: Sarah E. Bond.
Pleiades 2 Final Report
The Pleiades 2 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities ended in April 2014. A copy of the final report submitted to the NEH has been posted on the Pleiades website.
Stuart Dunn on Santorini
A blog post about the challenges of documenting changing volcanic landscapes in a digital gazetteer.
Maintenance Downtime: May 29, 2014
Pleiades will be down for approximately an hour tonight.
New Pleiades Plus Matches Pleiades with GeoNames
Pleiades Plus is an experimental machine alignment between Pleiades place resources and content in the GeoNames Gazetteer.
Richer Names Listings for Places
Pleiades place pages now provide more summary information for associated names.
Studying Identities in Rome and its Empire
A call for papers has been issued for a proposed colloquium sponsored by the Roman Provincial Archaeology Interest Group at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in New Orleans. The deadline for 500-word abstracts is February 21, 2014.
Geographies of the Ancient City: Lessons to Learn from Diachronic Comparisons
A second call for papers has just been issued for this session at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (London, August 2014). Deadline for 300-word proposals is February 3, 2014.
The Ancient Near East in Pleiades
We have recently accessioned some data derived from the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO) by an external project. Here is the status of the work, some context, and a call for volunteers.
Review Parties in December and January
Several review parties have been scheduled for December 2013 and January 2014. If you're interested in helping the editorial college clear the review backlog and publish new, high-quality information in Pleiades, please consider joining us.
Pleiades Downtime: Thursday, 21 November 2013
From 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. US Mountain Standard Time
5 September Review Party Canceled
Due to conflicts for a majority of the editorial board, tomorrow's review party has been canceled. Stay tuned for announcements about future events.