Annotating Places

Annotating Places

Use the Pleiades Gazetteer as the source for stable identifiers for place names, via the following steps:

  1. Open a new window or tab in your browser
  2. Navigate to http://pleiades.stoa.org/
  3. Enter the name of the place (in English) in the Search box and click Search
  4. Browse the search results
  5. If you have found the right place, copy the Canonical URI (which can be found near the top of the page)
  6. Return to the tab with the Smith’s dictionary and Hypothes.is enabled
  7. Paste the Canonical URI of your place as the body of your annotation
  8. add the keywords ‘place’ and ‘PSN’ in the tags