One thing that struck me in particular about Elaine’s useful talk was her summary of the history of LGPN, in which she identified two phases: (1) the “inward phase”, in which technology, conventions, and so forth were designed and built in-house, with the only goal that of taking forward and publishing the project data; (2) the “outward phase” with more focus on the use of interoperability and international standards, the need for their data to “make sense to the rest of the world”. So for example the use of TEI XML as a data format makes the database compatible with many digital humanities projects in our field and beyond. Equally, while LGPN can consider themselves an authority on Greek names, they are not an authority on places, and so look to a project like Pleiades for guidance on geographical matters.