Pleiades

Pleiades is a historical gazetteer and more. It gives scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, share, and map historical geographic information about the ancient world. It associates names and locations in time and provides structured information about the quality and provenance of these entities. There is also a graph in Pleiades: names and locations are collected into conceptual bundles (places) and these collections are associated with other geographically connected places. Pleiades identifies places within the emerging web of ancient world linked data. It is an authoritative hub in an expanding constellation of online publications that treat the histories, languages, texts, and artifacts of antiquity.

Pleiades is one hundred percent open source, one hundred percent openly licensed and one hundred percent editable. Our open source software gets used and improved by a diverse crowd of programmers in the humanities and beyond. Our openly licensed resources have no costs attached, no surprises or encumberances. Pleiades is a continuously published scholarly reference work for the 21st century. We embrace the new paradigm of citizen humanities, encouraging contributions from any knowledgeable person and doing so in a context of pervasive peer review. Pleiades welcomes your contribution, no matter how small, and we have a number of useful tasks suitable for volunteers of every interest.

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