Malrubius
03-02-2006, 00:12
The editor of the Barrington Atlas, Richard J.A. Talbert, is now acting director of the Ancient World Mapping Center. This center has a Pleiades project to place ancient maps freely available online (for those of us who don't have $350 for the Barrington Atlas).
This article has an overview of the project: Mapping Voyages Back in Time: How scholars create an atlas of the ancient world. (http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110008029)
Quoting from the Pleiades site: (http://www.unc.edu/awmc/pleiades.html)
Pleiades will also enable large-scale collaboration in order to maintain and diversify this dataset. Combining open-content approaches (like those used by Wikipedia) with academic-style editorial review, Pleiades will enable anyone — from university professors to casual students of antiquity — to suggest updates to geographic names, descriptive essays, bibliographic references and geographic coordinates. Once vetted for accuracy and pertinence, these suggestions will become a permanent, author-attributed part of future AWMC publications and data services.
This article has an overview of the project: Mapping Voyages Back in Time: How scholars create an atlas of the ancient world. (http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110008029)
Quoting from the Pleiades site: (http://www.unc.edu/awmc/pleiades.html)
Pleiades will also enable large-scale collaboration in order to maintain and diversify this dataset. Combining open-content approaches (like those used by Wikipedia) with academic-style editorial review, Pleiades will enable anyone — from university professors to casual students of antiquity — to suggest updates to geographic names, descriptive essays, bibliographic references and geographic coordinates. Once vetted for accuracy and pertinence, these suggestions will become a permanent, author-attributed part of future AWMC publications and data services.