We have now done a preliminary round of linking to Pleiades URIs for the sites in GeoDia. To do this, we queried the Pleiades feed to look for sites with the same name within the geographic bounding-boxes used by Pleiades to locate sites. These bounding-boxes are based on the spatial divisions of the Barrington Atlas.
About 2/3 of our sites could be connected automatically. Some others aren't found in Pleiades, while some didn't link because the Pleiades feed didn't expose all alternate names.
We will be interested to see how well we can connect sites now that the Pleiades project is drawing more specific locations from Harvard's DARMC project. The DARMC site locations are less specific, in many cases, than the GeoDia locations, which are derived from satellite imagery rather than cartographic coordinates. The question will be whether the Pleiades feed will include both bounding-box information and specific DARMC coordinates.
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