The World Historical Gazetteer: Digital Public and World History

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The World Historical
Gazetteer: Digital Public
and World History
Susan Grunewald, Ph.D.
Digital History Postdoctoral Associate
World History Center
University of Pittsburgh
@SusanGrunewald1
[email protected]

2. What is a Gazetteer?

WHAT IS A GAZETTEER?

3. Overview of WHG Project

OVERVIEW OF WHG PROJECT

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11. Technical Specifications

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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14. Linked Places Format

• Attempt to create standard for place data
• It is both valid JSON-LTD and GeoJASON
• Permits names, time, geometries, and
relations

15. Linked Places Format

• LP-TSV: tab-delimited text file
• Requires name
• Permits country codes, types
• Geometry

16. Linked Traces Format

• Supports place name
• Supports temporal range
• Supports type of relation (waypoint, person,
artifact, etc)

17. Linked Traces TSV

• Similar formatting to Linked Places TSV
• Data must be standardized to our specifics to
upload into system

18. Contributing

CONTRIBUTING

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29. What You Will Get

• Search for places
• Search for data
• Map historical places
• Get geometries for places from names
• Publishing credit for uploads (much later)

30. Status

• Late fall/early winter 2019: Beta Release
http://whgazetteer.org/
@WHGazetteer

31. Questions?

QUESTIONS?

32. Try Yourself

TRY YOURSELF

33. http://dev.whgazetteer.org/

• https://tinyurl.com/yxcft6cb WHG Github
• https://tinyurl.com/yyslln4n Sample Data

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Thank you!
Susan Grunewald, Ph.D.
Digital History Postdoctoral Associate
World History Center
University of Pittsburgh
@SusanGrunewald1
[email protected]