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November 3, 1998
World wide web resource: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
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From: "T.Matthew Ciolek" <tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au>
The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early November 1998, Vol. 5, No. 67
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03 Nov 1998
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
The Getty Information Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Supplied note: "The TGN is the first automated source of hierarchically
arranged geographic data that is global in scope. The TGN comprises
records for nearly 1 million place names representing approximately
900,000 places. It provides vernacular, English, and historical names,
as well as background information about the places. The TGN is updated on
an ongoing basis. Most of the place records in the TGN include geographic
(lat/long) coordinates. The planned expansion of the TGN aims at the
addition of names and other information to places already in the
database, as well as the addition of historical places and historical
hierarchies."
Self-description: "TGN [...] is a structured vocabulary developed
primarily for the field of art history, but with the potential for wide
applications in related disciplines such as archeology, history and
geography."
URL http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn_browser
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]:
Essential
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Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
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RSPAS, The Australian National University
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