Pleiades Goals
The managing editors of Pleiades have identified the following goals:
- To build and a maintain a digital reference work that can function as both an authority list for ancient names and places, and as a reference dataset for mapping and spatial query
- To publish new and legacy work in ancient geography – from the single coordinate pair or name variant to large datasets – in a cohesive, structured way that supports our core mission
- To harness the unique and varied expertise, insight, access and critical acumen of scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide in the accession, creation, editing and review of content
- To wed the practices of scholarly citation, authorial attribution, hyperlinking and version control to underpin the authority, citability and utility of the work
- To provide easy-to-use data lookup, spatial query, dynamic mapping and other services where these are not provided by freely accessible, web-wide services
- To license, surface and disseminate the work in terms, formats and venues that facilitate its application across the emerging network infrastructure and its preservation in multiple, well-described copies
- To resist the urge to become a heterogeneous digital library in our own right, we prefer to cite and link to other stable resources and to expose or publish our content to other services and repositories, rather than taking on frequent revisions of our data model or runaway feature creep
