Pleiades Screencast: Search and Browse
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This video will show you how to find content of interest on the Pleiades website. There are two ways to find content using the website itself: browse and search. I'll demonstrate both of these options.
To browse, start at the Pleiades home page. Click on the link in the middle of the page labeled "get information about ancient places." This page provides a series of links for browsing Pleiades place resources. At present we do not provide a complete listing of all places in Pleiades. This is because we register over 30,000 separate places. Many of them have multiple names, and many of them have no known ancient or even modern names. Search is a better way to find places by their names, and we'll come to that in a minute.
There are two ways to browse for content, by time period or by place type.
To browse by time period, simply select the time period of interest, and click through the corresponding link. In this case, we'll look for places that were active concurrent to the Archaic period in Greece.
Once we're on the archaic period list, we can click through to the place resource of interest. For example, Akalissos.
Going back to the places page, we can also choose to browse by place type. This works the same way as time periods. Just click on the link you want ... let's try "settlement"
And there's the list.
For efficiency, the Pleiades web application only shows you twenty entries at a time, and these are alphabetized by name.
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You can advance to the next batch, or jump around in the list, by clicking the appropriate navigation link.
Pleiades has a quick search function that is very useful for finding places by name. Start typing the name of interest in the search box, and Pleiades will try to match it as soon as it can.
Let's use Xanthos.
The search box will give you links to all content matching your search term. Places and features are indicated with a small icon of a compass rose. Names and bibliographic references are indicated with an icon that looks like a piece of paper.
Let's try this one: here we have the information resource for the place Xanthos, which gives you access to all the relevant information: names, features and bibliographic references.
Searching for modern names also works.
Arif
Pleiades also has an "advanced search" function which gives you much more control over the results of your search.
Here we can limit our search to "ancient places" only.
Primoupolis
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To learn more about Pleiades, visit our home page at http://pleiades.stoa.org. and select the "learn more about the project" link.
This will take you to our project wiki, where you can find out about the origins and goals of the project and who's involved. You can also get involved in developing and improving our content yourself.
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Pleiades is a joint project of the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. We had generous startup help from the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky. Development of Pleiades was funded by a grant from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.
