PastPlace historical gazetteer

Humphrey Southall; Michael Stoner; Paula Aucott

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09657-3

PastPlace historical gazetteer

Humphrey Southall, Michael Stoner, Paula Aucott

University of Portsmouth Ageing Network

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Abstract

The PastPlace gazetteer is a subset of Wikidata, itself a systematization of Wikipedia, and so contains all the world's "notable" places. To this have been linked historical place name "attestations", meaning instances of a particular character string being used to refer to the place in a specified and usually dated historical map or other document. The system inherits much historical content from the Great Britain Historical GIS, and the main sources are described, but place name content can be extended globally through crowd-sourcing name attestations from historical maps: the related Old Maps Online project and GB1900 crowd-sourcing system are introduced. The article describes the Linked Data Applications Programming Interface by which this information is made accessible to computers, and more briefly the PastPlace web app for humans.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems
Editors	Bo Huang, Kai Gao, Elisabete A. Silva
Publisher	Elsevier
Chapter	3.08
Pages	110-118
Number of pages	9
Volume	3
ISBN (Print)	978-0-12-804793-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09657-3
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2017

Keywords

Applications programming interfaces
Feature types
Gazetteers
Geosemantics
Linked open data
Ontologies
PastPlace Gazetteer
Places
Resource description framework
Semantic web
Wikidata

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PastPlace advertising-funded global historical gazetteer
Southall, H., Aucott, P., Westwood, J. & Stoner, M.
1/10/13 → 31/07/15
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