Several Blogs Added to Maia

I have just added the following blogs to the Maia Atlantis feed aggregator:

• All Mesopotamia
• Ancient Art
• Ancient Peoples
• Christopher Rollston (Rollston Epigraphy: Ancient Inscriptions from the Levantine World)
• He has a wife you know
• Instituto de Arqueología - Mérida
• Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory
• Végh Zsuzsanna and Simon Zsolt (Agyagtábla, papirusz)

New in Maia: The Portus Project

I've just added the feed from the Portus Project website to the Maia Atlantis feed aggregator.

New in Maia: Antiquity Now

I've just added the Antiquity Now Blog to the Maia Atlantis feed aggregator.

New in Maia Atlantis

Just added to the Maia Atlantis feed aggregator:

• Pedar Foss's quem dixere chaos
• Christopher Ecclestone's Piecing Together Diogenes of Oinoanda
• EES Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Project

Pleiades Hackday: Improving Descriptions

A Pleiades hack day is now underway in the Pleiades IRC channel. We've decided to focus on cleaning up descriptions for Pleiades place resources on the island of Sardinia. The following query gives you most of the Pleiades content for Sardinia and Corsica:

http://tinyurl.com/aotxaum

Here's our process:

1. Pick a place to improve
2. Drop the title and URL into the IRC channel, so everyone knows you're working on it
3. Check out a working copy of the place
4. In your working copy, write a better description and connect the place to the place resource for the island you're working on.
5. Submit for review
6. Ping paregorios or servilius_ahala in IRC to get it reviewed and published

We're also building an FAQ on the subject of "What Makes a Good Pleiades Description?".

Latest at Maia and Electra

In response to a request from the author, I've pulled the feed for http://www.iosa.it from the Maia and Electra feed aggregators (is is moribund). I have added to both the feed for Stefano Costa's blog.

New in Maia and Electra: Perseus Updates

I've just added the Perseus Digital Library Updates blog to the Maia and Electra Atlantides feed aggregators.