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Last Week in Pleiades (28 October - 4 November 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (28 October - 4 November 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Nov 04, 2024 11:11 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 148 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling and Gabriel McKee.

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Last Two Weeks in Pleiades (14-28 October 2024)

Last Two Weeks in Pleiades (14-28 October 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Oct 28, 2024 02:41 PM
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During the last two weeks the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 389 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Charlotte Roueché, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.

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Last Week in Pleiades (7-14 October 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (7-14 October 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Oct 14, 2024 12:57 PM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 20 new and 177 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Jonathan Fu, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.

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Last Week in Pleiades (30 September - 7 October 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (30 September - 7 October 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Oct 07, 2024 01:41 PM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 5 new and 199 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.

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Wikidata Wednesdays

Wikidata Wednesdays

by Tom Elliott last modified Oct 03, 2024 08:51 AM
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Alignments between Wikidata and Pleiades (and other gazetteers) have been growing for some time, but there's still plenty of work to do.

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Last Week in Pleiades (23-30 September 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (23-30 September 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Sep 30, 2024 05:06 PM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new and 113 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anthony Durham, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Karen Rubinson, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.

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Last Week in Pleiades (16-23 September 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (16-23 September 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Sep 23, 2024 10:06 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 130 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.

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Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 September 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (9-16 September 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Sep 16, 2024 11:14 AM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 114 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, James Cowey, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Philip Kenrick, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, John Muccigrosso, Rosemary Selth and R. Scott Smith.

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Last 9 days in Pleiades (1-9 September 2024)

Last 9 days in Pleiades (1-9 September 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Sep 09, 2024 02:55 PM
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Since the beginning of September, the Pleiades editorial college has published 6 new and 163 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Matthias Grawehr, Carolin Johansson, Yaniv Korman, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso and Thomas Seidler.

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Last Month in Pleiades (August 2024)

Last Month in Pleiades (August 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Sep 02, 2024 04:00 PM
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Last month the Pleiades editorial college published 41 new and 471 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Birgit Christiansen, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Jamie Novotny, Philipp Pilhofer, Rune Rattenborg, María Jesús Redondo, Thomas Seidler, Richard Talbert, and Scott Vanderbilt.

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What Pleiades Does: La Alcudia

What Pleiades Does: La Alcudia

by Tom Elliott last modified Aug 22, 2024 11:46 AM
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An example of the way in which iterative improvements and additions to Pleiades build on earlier work and produce gazetteer entries that can speed scholars and students to the next steps in their research or other projects.

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Pleiades Data Viewer

Pleiades Data Viewer

by Victor Temprano last modified Jul 31, 2024 08:12 AM
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A guest post by Victor Temprano in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series about this web application that enables the user to browse and search the Pleiades dataset by name and time period, viewing all the results on a single, interactive map.

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Last Week in Pleiades (22-29 July 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (22-29 July 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jul 29, 2024 04:24 PM
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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new and 128 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Tom Elliott, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel McKee, and John Muccigrosso.

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Last Week in Pleiades (15-22 July 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (15-22 July 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jul 29, 2024 03:34 PM
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Between 15 and 22 July 2024, the Pleiades editorial college published 17 new and 254 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, Carolin Johansson, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Chris de Lisle, Yuyao Liu, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, Rune Rattenborg, and Jason M. Silverman.

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Last Week in Pleiades (8-15 July 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (8-15 July 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jul 15, 2024 12:25 PM
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Last week the editorial college published 55 new and 266 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Iulian Bîrzescu, Tom Elliott, Ryosuke Furui, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Stanisław Ludwiński, Adam Rabinowitz, Rune Rattenborg, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, Francis Tassaux, Clifflena Tiah, and Athanasia Varveri.

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MANTO: A digital dataset of Greek myth

MANTO: A digital dataset of Greek myth

by R. Scott Smith last modified Jul 09, 2024 06:28 AM
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A guest post by R. Scott Smith and Greta Hawes in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning MANTO, a Linked Open Data project that models the story world of Greek myth and its impacts on the historical landscape of the Mediterranean using data curated from ancient texts and artifacts.

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Last Week in Pleiades (1-8 July 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (1-8 July 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jul 08, 2024 04:24 PM
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Last week, the editorial college published 33 new and 123 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Martina Filosa, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.

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Last Week in Pleiades (24 June - 1 July 2024)

Last Week in Pleiades (24 June - 1 July 2024)

by Tom Elliott last modified Jul 01, 2024 12:58 PM
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Last week, the editorial college published 39 new and 138 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Martina Filosa, Greta Hawes, Daniel C. Browning Jr., Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith.

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World Historical Gazetteer

World Historical Gazetteer

by Ruth Mostern last modified Jun 28, 2024 08:21 AM
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A guest post by Ruth Mostern and Karl Grossner in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series in which they describe the open source and open content WHG project, which spans human history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century and provides tools for uploading and building datasets, creating place collections, and sharing and using example lesson plans.

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PALAEOPORTOLOGY: Ancient coastal settlements, ports and harbours

PALAEOPORTOLOGY: Ancient coastal settlements, ports and harbours

by Arthur De Graauw last modified Jun 25, 2024 06:02 PM
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A guest post by Arthur de Graauw in the Pleiades gazetteer "Projects and Partners" series concerning his project, started in 2010, that collects, identifies and locates ancient ports and harbours from Iceland to Sri Lanka. Project data can be downloaded for reuse in spreadsheet form and KML for Google Earth.

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