Pleiades Entity, the Product

The Pleiades Entity product provides Plone content types suitable for constructing and managing collections of geographic data items, for example, digital gazetteer entries. The product has been developed using ArchGenXML and i18ndude. The Pleiades Entity product replaces the GeographicEntityLiteProduct.

The following content types are provided:

  • GeographicEntity: objects instantiated from this class are used to represent, and organize information about, discrete, identifiable geographic entities or features. The Plone content type is subclassed from the Archetypes Base Folder. Presently, Geographic entities can contain 0..n geographic names (see below).
  • GeographicName: objects instantiated from this class are used to represent, and organize information about, names associated with parent Geographic Entity objects. This Plone content type is subclassed from the Archetypes Base content class.

Further documentation of the content types, including after-edit and after-creation behaviors (some fields are automatically filled or rewritten) can be found in the UML model.

Usage

See the PleiadesEntity readme.

Future Improvements

This product will be refactored to reduce its emphasis on (but not eliminate its suppport for) historical geographic data. If you use or subclass this product, keep track of your dependencies!

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Tickets

GeoEntity tickets

#189
Overlaps and conflicts
#199
context-sensitive help for coordinate order
#208
constrain numeric precision to actual precision
#234
commonly used but not attested names
#295
more flexibility for modern location / name
#372
automatic center point calculation
#374
shapefile variant
#382
add support for Coptic in Pleiades names

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