[new resource]: Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer

[charlottejmc]

Title of the resource

Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer

Resource type

External Resource

Authors, editors and contributors

Susan Grunewald, Ruth Mostern, Yann Ryan

Topics (keywords)

DH, Open Education, Open Access, data management, LOD, mapping

Learning outcomes

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Understand the concept of place
• Define what a gazetteer is and distinguish it from other forms of spatial information
• Identify scenarios for which creating a gazetteer may be preferable to using a geographic information system
• Transform a historical text into a gazetteer
• Share a gazetteer with other platforms to enhance it and use it for analytical purposes

Abstract

A digital gazetteer records information associated with specific places. This lesson teaches you how to create a gazetteer from a historical text, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.

[VickyGarnett]

@charlottejmc - these authors are all in the system, so you can continue to the CMS for drafting them up :). Thanks. V