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Boston Workshop, January 2018
A three-hour workshop on Pleiades and related tools and techniques will be held in Boston on Friday, January 5, 1:45 - 4:45 pm.
Improving Reference Citations
Pleiades cites a wide variety of resources, both online and in print. New documentation and tools are making existing references better and easing the process of creating new ones.
Pleiades Pompeii sprint
A Pleiades editing sprint in conjunction with the Ancient Graffiti Project (http://ancientgraffiti.org/)
Introducing Geocollider
A new tool to help you match lists of placenames or geographic locations against the Pleiades gazetteer.
New help topic: Open Pleiades CSV in QGIS
Are you eager to use Pleiades data in a geographic information system? Here's a quick, introductory tutorial.
Updated help topic: Add a new connection between two places
"Connections" can be used to express relationships between two places in Pleiades. It's easy to add a new connection.
Recent Updates to the Editorial Guidelines
Pleiades contributors should make note of recent additions and clarifications.
Pleiades welcomes new reviewer: Müge Durusu
Pleiades has a new reviewer: Müge Durusu
A Pleiades Documentation "Sprint"
Let's club together to update and improve the help section and other documentation for the Pleiades gazetteer.
ToposText Presentation in Athens, December 7
Brady Kiesling and colleagues will present an upgraded version of the ToposText mobile app at the Historical Library of the Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus.
New Progress Report Available
A copy of the most recent semiannual progress report submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities has been posted online.
Workshop on ancient world places
On 28 October 2016, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University will present a workshop, organized by Visiting Professor Gina Konstantopoulos, entitled "Hic Sunt Dracones: Creating, Defining, and Abstracting Place in the Ancient World".
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.