Last Two Weeks in the #PleiadesGazetteer (31 August - 14 September 2026): Over the course of the last two weeks, the Pleiades editorial college published 37 new and 197 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Anne Chen […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Export Updates 2026-09-14: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 15 new and 57 updated places. 12 new and 17 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 019d3791 - updated […]

The #PleiadesGazetteer is discussed in three chapters of the new Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies, edited by Elton Barker, Olympia Bobou: Sarah Bond on "Digital Maps and Mapping", Catherine Bouras on "Digital Gazetteers" and Stuart Dunn on "Place". Details on the blog […]

Call for citations: does your article, chapter, book, etc. cite Pleiades as a data source? If so, we'd like to add a citation to our new "Pleiades in Use" blog section at https://pleiades.stoa.org/docs/pleiades-in-use . Reply here or drop us an email at pleiades.admin@nyu.edu Boosts […]

The #PleiadesGazetteer is among the data sources cited in a new paper that "analyze[s] monetary circulation across the Roman world": Haddad, Eduardo A., and Inacio Araujo. “Economic Footprints: Mapping Coin Circulation and Economic Networks in Ancient Rome.” Humanities and Social Sciences […]

Export Updates 2026-09-11: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 13 new and 46 updated places. 4 new and 21 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: de28aa0a - updated […]

Nightly exports ran successfully and are available via https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads . Derivatives and reports normally generated from them and committed to pleiades.datasets on github will not be updated today because multiple third-party data sources could not be refreshed due to […]

Export Updates 2026-09-09: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 6 new and 54 updated places. 10 new and 43 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: f1fa5bd7 - updated […]

Efforts to fix the broken database item appear to have been successful. Daily exports are running now to verify.

New nightly exports and derivatives remain unavailable until a database index can be repaired.

pleiades.datasets exports and derivatives will be delayed until we can troubleshoot and remedy a database inconsistency that is causing nightly exports to fail

Export Updates 2026-09-03: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 8 updated places. 2 new and 23 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 06c5eca7 - updated json no change […]

Export Updates 2026-09-02: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 33 updated places. 21 new and 88 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: e151fca9 - updated json no […]

The offending missing index entry has been found and the overnight exports re-run. Derivative generation and pleiades.datasets packaging of exports have now been restarted.

Daily exports and derivatives will be delayed while we investigate the cause of failure of the overnight core exports.

Export Updates 2026-09-01: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 60 updated places. 57 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 27df03bb - updated json no change: rdf/ttl […]

Last 3 weeks in the #PleiadesGazetteer (10-31 August 2026): Over the course of the last three weeks, the Pleiades editorial college published 29 new and 263 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Ashley Aguilar, Jeffrey Becker, Isabella Bryant […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Export Updates 2026-08-31: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 15 updated places. 5 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: c88f220a - updated json 6e641027 - updated […]

Wikidata query service remains unavailable due to various errors. Pleiades exports and derivatives generation will proceed with last known good Wikidata results.

Daily exports/derivatives will be delayed as the Wikidata query interface is responding with "upstream request timeout" and "Query timeout limit reached"

Export Updates 2026-08-28: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 32 updated places. 12 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: b2147e76 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl […]

Wikidata query service remains unavailable due to "Query timeout limit reached". Pleiades exports and derivatives generation will proceed with last known good Wikidata results.

Daily exports/derivatives will be delayed as the Wikidata query interface is responding with "upstream request timeout"

Export Updates 2026-08-26: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 58 updated places. 35 new and 55 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 7762fc80 - updated json […]

Daily exports and derivatives will be delayed because the Wikidata query interface is returning "502 Bad Gateway" errors.

Export Updates 2026-08-21: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 8 new and 13 updated places. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 9e5bc8e2 - updated json no change: rdf/ttl 669018ec - updated gis […]

Wikidata query service remains unavailable due to "Query timeout limit reached". Pleiades exports and derivatives generation will proceed with last known good Wikidata results (yesterday).

Daily export updates will be delayed while we wait for the Wikidata query interface to become functional.

Export Updates 2026-08-20: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 1 new and 18 updated places. 12 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: ef12ad66 - updated json no […]

Export Updates 2026-08-19: Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places 20 updated places. 3 new and 45 updated linked data sidebars. 1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads 2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets: "main" branch: 37bc3fa4 - updated json no […]