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=== Availability ===
==Available==


* http://www.unc.edu/awmc/pleiades.html
* http://pleiades.stoa.org/
* Director: Dr Tom Elliott


=== Description ===
==Editors==
 
* Senior Editors: Roger Bagnall, Richard Talbert
* Managing Editors: Tom Elliott, Lindsay Holman
 
==Description==
 
The '''Pleiades''' gazetteer of the ancient world provides open access to the most comprehensive geospatial dataset for antiquity available today. It is useful as a geographic reference work, helping students and scholars alike find the locations for (and additional information about) places they encounter when reading ancient texts and when investigating the history and archaeology of the ancient world. It also provides data in a variety of formats that can be download for re-use in other projects and in mapping tools and geographic information systems. Pleiades also serves as a component of other important digital humanities projects, ranging from online editions of primary sources for students to expert systems supporting advanced research in fields like archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. It also constitutes a core resource for classroom activities focused on ancient geography.
 
At present, ''Pleiades'' has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding to treat other cultures and periods from ancient Europe and the Mediterranean littoral into Southwest Asia and beyond. It contains information about over 30,000 ancient places, names, and locations. This content is constantly growing and improving thanks to the hard work of volunteers around the world, whose efforts are supported and guided by a team of scholarly editors and seasoned reviewers. For a complete listing, including individual contributions, see the [http://pleiades.stoa.org/credits credits page].
 
''Pleiades'' is a joint project of the [[Institute for the Study of the Ancient World]] at New York University and the [[Ancient World Mapping Center]] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to financial and in-kind support from these institutions, ''Pleiades'' got started thanks to a development server provided by the [[Stoa Consortium]], and has matured thanks to three generous grants from the [http://www.neh.gov National Endowment for the Humanities].
 
All published content is freely accessible to everyone under open licence and may be accessed [http://pleiades.stoa.org/places place-by-place] in multiple formats or [http://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads downloaded en masse]. All interested parties are invited to [http://pleiades.stoa.org/welcome join the ''Pleiades'' community] and contribute new or improved content.
 
==Presentations==
* [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2019-2020/wiki/DCH-Session-5-Gazetteers Sunoikisis DC 2019 : Digital Gazetteers] (Johan Åhlfeldt, Tom Elliott, Valeria Vitale)
* Anne Chan,Rainer Simon,Valarie Vitale, (2021) "Linked geographical data and web-mapping", ''Sunoikisis DC''. [Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDrQ7-av4Y]
==See also==
 
* [[Pelagios]]
* [[LAWD]]


Built atop the open-source Plone Content Management System and hosted by the Stoa Consortium, Pleiades will provide on-line access to all information about Greek and Roman geography assembled by the Classical Atlas Project for the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (R. Talbert, ed., Princeton, 2000. Pleiades will also enable large-scale collaboration in order to maintain and diversify this dataset. Combining open-content approaches (like those used by Wikipedia) with academic-style editorial review, Pleiades will enable anyone — from university professors to casual students of antiquity — to suggest updates to geographic names, descriptive essays, bibliographic references and geographic coordinates. Once vetted for accuracy and pertinence, these suggestions will become a permanent, author-attributed part of future AWMC publications and data services.


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Revision as of 16:50, 13 August 2021

Available

Editors

  • Senior Editors: Roger Bagnall, Richard Talbert
  • Managing Editors: Tom Elliott, Lindsay Holman

Description

The Pleiades gazetteer of the ancient world provides open access to the most comprehensive geospatial dataset for antiquity available today. It is useful as a geographic reference work, helping students and scholars alike find the locations for (and additional information about) places they encounter when reading ancient texts and when investigating the history and archaeology of the ancient world. It also provides data in a variety of formats that can be download for re-use in other projects and in mapping tools and geographic information systems. Pleiades also serves as a component of other important digital humanities projects, ranging from online editions of primary sources for students to expert systems supporting advanced research in fields like archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. It also constitutes a core resource for classroom activities focused on ancient geography.

At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding to treat other cultures and periods from ancient Europe and the Mediterranean littoral into Southwest Asia and beyond. It contains information about over 30,000 ancient places, names, and locations. This content is constantly growing and improving thanks to the hard work of volunteers around the world, whose efforts are supported and guided by a team of scholarly editors and seasoned reviewers. For a complete listing, including individual contributions, see the credits page.

Pleiades is a joint project of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to financial and in-kind support from these institutions, Pleiades got started thanks to a development server provided by the Stoa Consortium, and has matured thanks to three generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

All published content is freely accessible to everyone under open licence and may be accessed place-by-place in multiple formats or downloaded en masse. All interested parties are invited to join the Pleiades community and contribute new or improved content.

Presentations

See also