We use the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names for coding place names in our
museum and archival cataloguing systems. We're currently struggling with the
best way to display and make these terms searchable in our online database.
Currently we're just displaying the term itself, which is
On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:12 PM, ddwigg...@historicnewengland.org wrote:
But I'm having trouble coming up with an algorithm that can consistently spit
these out in the form we'd want to display given the data available in TGN.
A dense but rich, just-published article from D-Lib Magazine about
I use Geonames for this sort of thing a lot. With cities and
administrative divisions being offered in a machine-readable format, it's
pretty easy to encode places in a format that adheres to AACR2 or other
cataloging rules. There are of course problems disambiguating city names
when no country
From the examples you've given how about:
1. Start with the first (most detailed) element in the hieararchy.
2. Moving up the hieararchy, add on the first inhabited place found,
if any.
3. Continuing to move up the hieararchy, add on the first nation
found, if any.
On 9/17/2012 3:12 PM,
Hi David,
I am posting a reply from Patricia Harpring. Managing Editor, Getty
Vocabularies
Regards,
Joe Shubitowski
Getty Research Institute
David,
You ask a good question. At the Getty Vocabulary Program, we recommend
that you concatenate a recommended Label to identify the place.
In
