# Pleiades Data Dumps: Archival Copy, 2011-04-13 ## Metadata date: 2011-04-13 origin: http://pleiades.stoa.org/ downloaded from: http://pleiades.stoa.org/ and http://atlantides.org/downloads/pleiades/dumps/ rights: Content is governed by the copyrights of the individual contributors responsible for its creation. Some rights are reserved. All content is distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution license (cc-by). ## Credits Pleiades is brought to you by: * Our volunteer content contributors. * Pleiades has received significant, periodic support from the National Endowment for the Humanities since 2006. Grant numbers: HK-230973-15, PA-51873-06, PX-50003-08, and PW-50557-10. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. * Additional support has been provided since 2000 by the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. * Development hosting and other project incubation support was provided between 2000 and 2008 by Ross Scaife and the Stoa Consortium. * Web hosting and additional support has been provided since 2008 by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. ## Overview Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license. It publishes not just for individual human users, but also for search engines and for the widening array of computational research and visualization tools that support humanities teaching and research. 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. Regularly updated, abridged exports ("dumps") of the published items in the Pleiades dataset may be downloaded in three different formats as described below. The on-line resources under http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/ remain the canonical versions; the contents of the exports are not comprehensive. ## Contents ### Credits _This archival package contains a copy of the latest "credits" page (http://pleiades.stoa.org/credits), dating to 2 December 2015._ __directory: /credits/__ ### Comma-Separated Values (CSV) _This archival package contains the latest full set of CSV files, dated to 2 December 2015. Note the /csv/README.txt file for additional, essential metadata._ __directory: /csv/__ Each morning, tables summarizing the published locations, names, and places are written to compressed CSV files at http://atlantides.org/downloads/pleiades/dumps/. CSV is a widely used, well- known format that can be used by many computer programs. We keep a week's worth of files, deleting older ones. The files named pleiades-*-latest.csv.gz will always get you the most recent versions. ### Keyhole Markup Language (KML) _This archival package contains the latest KML file, dated to 2 December 2015._ __directory: /kml/__ Suitable for use in Google Earth, QGIS, and other KML-capable software. Information about all mappable places are read from our database and written to a zipped KML (KMZ) file each morning. We keep a week's worth of files at http://atlantides.org/downloads/pleiades/kml/ and delete older ones. The KML format is well-documented on the Library of Congress Digital Formats website. ### Resource Description Framework (RDF) _This archival package contains the latest RDF files, dated to 29 November 2015. Note the /rdf/README.txt file for additional, essential metadata._ __directory: /rdf/__ The latest data for all places, errata, authors, place types, and time periods is available for download in Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language) via http://atlantides.org/downloads/pleiades/rdf/pleiades-latest.tar.gz. This is a gzip-compressed, TAR archive. Previous RDF dumps are also available at http://atlantides.org/downloads/pleiades/rdf/. RDF dumps are updated weekly on Sundays. NB: RDF serializations of data for individual places — in both Turtle and RDF/XML syntax — can be had from links on the place pages, such as http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885/turtle for Athens, or by a negotiated request for the resource http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/579885#this. Please see the README in https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades-rdf for a description of the RDF and the vocabularies and ontologies used.