Integrate 3rd-Party Geographic Data
Other projects, as well as individual users, have a variety of pre-existing datasets that we might like to be able to relate to Pleiades content in some way. Beyond the obvious mechanism of a third-party pointing at one of our publications (e.g., by a web URL), there are surely other degrees of integration and crosslinking we may want to support, including:
- One-time accession of an existing dataset into Pleiades, crosswalking its fields into Pleiades fields and thereby superseding any prior third-party publication. Examples might include:
- Survey data for completed projects
- On-going accession of data from live projects, by way of newsfeeds or batch upload, with streamlined Pleiadic editorial actions based on trust relationship with originating project
- On-going creation of data by live projects using Pleiades tools natively (i.e., Pleiades workgroups corresponding to other existing projects), again with streamlined editorial actions
- Crosswalking of existing vocabularies, authority lists, gazetteers and reference works, already in use by third parties, such that Pleiades publishes concordances that link these legacy lists and systems to new Pleiades data by reliable and persistant identifier pairings, thereby facilitating use of Pleiades resources (e.g., WMS). Examples:
- Epigraphic findspot toponyms in the Heidelberg Epigraphic Database
- Gazetteer entries in Perseus
- Reference information about ancient mints developed by the American Numismatic Society
- Digitized (and corrected) coordinates from Ptolemy's Geography, developed by Neel Smith
