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	<p>World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) is providing a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.</p>		<p>World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) is providing a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.</p>

	~~<p>'''Status'''~~
	Version 2 of WHG was released in August 2021. The project launched with a Version 1 in July, 2020. For an overview of what is here, what you can do, and what is in the works, please see the Site Guide and the Tutorials section.</p>

	From project website (accessed 2020-07-14)		From project website (accessed 2020-07-14)

ValeriaVitale at 15:45, 5 December 2023

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	In 2021 the WHG has entered a second phase, and the site has been enriched with [https://whgazetteer.org/tutorials/ tutorials], teaching resources and additional tools to create, reconcile and contribute historical gazetteers.		In 2021 the WHG has entered a second phase, and the site has been enriched with [https://whgazetteer.org/tutorials/ tutorials], teaching resources and additional tools to create, reconcile and contribute historical gazetteers.
	The data format currently adopted by the WHG is Linked Places.		The data format currently adopted by the WHG is [https://github.com/LinkedPasts/linked-places-format Linked Places].

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	<p>'''Demonstration pilot projects'''. Data from two groups of historical research projects will be linked via the gazetteer, demonstrating the value of linked data in historical scholarship. One group is concerned with Maritime Asia, the other with the Atlantic World. </p></blockquote>		<p>'''Demonstration pilot projects'''. Data from two groups of historical research projects will be linked via the gazetteer, demonstrating the value of linked data in historical scholarship. One group is concerned with Maritime Asia, the other with the Atlantic World. </p></blockquote>

			In 2021 the WHG has entered a second phase, and the site has been enriched with [https://whgazetteer.org/tutorials/ tutorials], teaching resources and additional tools to create, reconcile and contribute historical gazetteers.
			The data format currently adopted by the WHG is Linked Places.

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TomGheldof: Added current version and link to Pelagios Network

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Added current version and link to Pelagios Network

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	==Description==		==Description==

			<p>World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) is providing a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.</p>

			<p>'''Status'''
			Version 2 of WHG was released in August 2021. The project launched with a Version 1 in July, 2020. For an overview of what is here, what you can do, and what is in the works, please see the Site Guide and the Tutorials section.</p>

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	[[category:Geography]]		[[category:Geography]]
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			[[category:Pelagios Network]]

HannahHungerford at 16:37, 14 July 2020

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	<blockquote><p> Over a three-year period (2017-2020), the '''World-Historical Gazetteer (WHG)''' project will produce a data store and associated software and services supporting collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale. This [[Linked ~~Open Data~~]] (LOD) system will focus significantly but not exclusively on the centuries since 1500, and have these closely related components:</p>		<blockquote><p> Over a three-year period (2017-2020), the '''World-Historical Gazetteer (WHG)''' project will produce a data store and associated software and services supporting collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale. This [[Linked open data]] (LOD) system will focus significantly but not exclusively on the centuries since 1500, and have these closely related components:</p>

	<p>'''The gazetteer'''. A spatially and temporally comprehensive database of significant world historical place names. This broad but shallow resource (an estimated 30,000 entries, subject to change) will draw on a few core sources, including print historical atlas indexes, linguistic atlases, and modern physical geography datasets. Those core records will be aligned with existing gazetteers where possible, including [[Geonames]] and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and be enriched with some data from DBpedia</p>		<p>'''The gazetteer'''. A spatially and temporally comprehensive database of significant world historical place names. This broad but shallow resource (an estimated 30,000 entries, subject to change) will draw on a few core sources, including print historical atlas indexes, linguistic atlases, and modern physical geography datasets. Those core records will be aligned with existing gazetteers where possible, including [[Geonames]] and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and be enriched with some data from DBpedia</p>

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	<blockquote><p> Over a three-year period (2017-2020), the '''World-Historical Gazetteer (WHG)''' project will produce a data store and associated software and services supporting collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale. This [[Linked Open Data]] (LOD) system will focus significantly but not exclusively on the centuries since 1500, and have these closely related components:</p>		<blockquote><p> Over a three-year period (2017-2020), the '''World-Historical Gazetteer (WHG)''' project will produce a data store and associated software and services supporting collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale. This [[Linked Open Data]] (LOD) system will focus significantly but not exclusively on the centuries since 1500, and have these closely related components:</p>

	<p>'''The gazetteer'''. A spatially and temporally comprehensive database of significant world historical place names. This broad but shallow resource (an estimated 30,000 entries, subject to change) will draw on a few core sources, including print historical atlas indexes, linguistic atlases, and modern physical geography datasets. Those core records will be aligned with existing gazetteers where possible, including [[~~GeoNames~~]] and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and be enriched with some data from DBpedia</p>		<p>'''The gazetteer'''. A spatially and temporally comprehensive database of significant world historical place names. This broad but shallow resource (an estimated 30,000 entries, subject to change) will draw on a few core sources, including print historical atlas indexes, linguistic atlases, and modern physical geography datasets. Those core records will be aligned with existing gazetteers where possible, including [[Geonames]] and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and be enriched with some data from DBpedia</p>

	<p>'''A “union index.”''' Records from the WHG core gazetteer will be merged with those of specialized gazetteers from our project partners and elsewhere in a rich, high-performance index.</p>		<p>'''A “union index.”''' Records from the WHG core gazetteer will be merged with those of specialized gazetteers from our project partners and elsewhere in a rich, high-performance index.</p>

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==Available==

* http://whgazetteer.org/

==Core Project Team==

* Ruth Mostern (Principal Investigator)
* Karl Grossner (Technical Director)
* Susan Grunewald (Postdoctoral fellow)
* Patrick Manning (Project Consultant)

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* Ryan Horne (Postdoctoral fellow)
* David Ruvolo (Project Manager)

==Description==

From project website (accessed 2020-07-14)

<blockquote> Over a three-year period (2017-2020), the '''World-Historical Gazetteer (WHG)''' project will produce a data store and associated software and services supporting collaborative digital and data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale. This [[Linked Open Data]] (LOD) system will focus significantly but not exclusively on the centuries since 1500, and have these closely related components:

'''The gazetteer'''. A spatially and temporally comprehensive database of significant world historical place names. This broad but shallow resource (an estimated 30,000 entries, subject to change) will draw on a few core sources, including print historical atlas indexes, linguistic atlases, and modern physical geography datasets. Those core records will be aligned with existing gazetteers where possible, including [[GeoNames]] and the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and be enriched with some data from DBpedia

'''A “union index.”''' Records from the WHG core gazetteer will be merged with those of specialized gazetteers from our project partners and elsewhere in a rich, high-performance index.

'''Interfaces to the gazetteer'''. We will build (a) a web-based interface for searching, browsing, and editing the data, and (b) an application programming interface service (API) providing faceted programmatic access to the data in the [https://github.com/WorldHistoricalGazetteer/requirements GitHub Repository] 

'''Demonstration pilot projects'''. Data from two groups of historical research projects will be linked via the gazetteer, demonstrating the value of linked data in historical scholarship. One group is concerned with Maritime Asia, the other with the Atlantic World. </blockquote>

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[[category:Geography]]
[[category:Linked open data]]