Pleiades Content: Digitization Status

The Pleiades web application manages information about ancient locations, placenames, features and places. If you're interested in the details, you can read more about our DataModel, or you can see it in action via the places page.

We are in the process of populating Pleiades with data drawn from the compilation materials of the Classical Atlas Project (which formed the basis for the Barrington Atlas = BAtlas). Once the data is added, it can be modified, enhanced or corrected by members of the PleiadesCommunity. The following summary indicates the current state of accession of this legacy material. Content that has been loaded with general locations (bounding boxes), based on the Barrington Atlas grid squares is indicated with a postfix 'x'. If bibliography has been migrated to RDF from its original format, a postfix 'b' is also included.

It is now possible to browse Pleiades content grouped by the associated Barrington Atlas map numbers, although not all of the data entered early in the project has been retrospectively grouped into the corresponding collections.

Content by Barrington map numbers (in priority order)

• NEH Pleiades 1 grant:
  • 65 (point symbols loaded with +/- 2km horizontal accuracy based on map scale) - b
  • 38 (point symbols loaded with +/- 2km horizontal accuracy based on map scale) - b
• NEH Concordia grant deliverables:
  • 35x
  • 37x
  • 73-75x
• EDH collab
  • 20-22x (reloaded from the 2009-10-16 set of fixed XML on 20/Oct)
• Synergy with digital papyrology, ISAW Images and Coptic project content
  • 36x
  • 69-71x
  • 76x, 77x (reloaded from the 2009-10-16 set of fixed XML), 78-83x
• Aphrodisias neighborhood (i.e., Asia Minor)
  • 52x
  • 56x
  • 61-62x

Everything above may be missing modern location.

Update (2011-12-21): Above have modern locations patched back in from 2010-07-05 XML.

Dirs below loaded from /var/pleiades/batlas/dirs/xml-fixed-2009-10-16.

• Aphrodisias neighborhood (i.e., Asia Minor)
  • 63-64x, 66-68x
  • 72x
  • 86-87x

Fixes for citation range bug, multiple modern locations (2009-10-29) below:

• Pascal Querel, PAS, Gillies
  • 7-11x, 12x, 15x,

Fixes for feature types:

• 13-14x, 16x, 17-19x

• LGPN (i.e., Greece)
  • 49-51x, 53-54x, 55 (problem with an "incomplete featureName element")
  • 57x

NOTE: we're pausing here (2010-07-07) while we resolve problems in the way roads itineraries are represented in some of our source XML files

• 58x, 60x, 59 (road issues)

• Other
  • 1-6x
  • 23x
  • 24x, 25-26 (road issues), 27-29x, 30, 31 (road issues), 32-34x
  • 39-45, 46x, 47-48b (of these only 46 is free of the road issue referred to above)
  • 84-85x
  • 88-99x

Provinces and dioceses - from /var/pleiades/batlas/dirs/xml-fixed-2010-07-05

• 100-102x

Accumulated list of maps with road troubles that we're temporarily skipping:

(Incomplete before 58) 59, 25-26, 31, 39-45, 47-48

Next: FixingRoadRash.

Round 1bis

Map directories 38 and 65 have been reloaded, maintaining all the precise locations and anonymous places added by Tom Elliot.

Round 2

On the first pass, we'll yank previously loaded roads in: 12x, 15x, 16x, 19x, 20x, 30x, 36x, 49x, 51x, 62x, 66x, 68x, 71x, 75-80x.

(15 - loaded 2 roads as examples, drafting) (62x, 65x - loaded 1 road each as examples, drafting)

Next, maps we skipped: 25-26x, 31x, 39-41x, 42-45x, 47x, 48x, 59x.

TODO: load the roads after user feedback.

Other Bulk Upgrades

PlaceUpgradesAndMigrations