| Name |
URL |
Coverage |
Place relationship |
Quantity |
Type |
Access |
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A Vision of Britain through Time
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http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ |
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001 -- but also covers Sweden and Estonia; Coordinate system is ETRS-89
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geolocated places AND administrative units
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20,000 places, 80,000 admin units, 80,000 boundary polygons (but linked to only 40,000 of the units), 150,000 placenames, 10m words of georeferenced text, 14.5m georeferenced statistics, 3,000 georeferenced historical maps
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Geo-spatial ontology
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web browse; Postgres/PostGIS command line if you know how; polygons downloadable from http://edina.ac.uk/ukborders; statistics downloadable from http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbhd/docs/db_index.asp; historic maps accessible via Web Map Server. JISC have twice rejected projects to implement a SPARQL endpoint. |
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| Beazley archive |
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm |
classical greek pottery |
place names |
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web based search (no other access)
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| RPC |
http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/ |
roman coins |
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web based search (no other access)
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| History pin |
http://www.historypin.com/ |
photos attached to map |
geolocations |
|
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web based search (no other access)
|
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| GoGeo |
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/gogeo/ |
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geospatial data repos with metadata browser (file server); content: mostly remote sensed, meteorology
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| CHALICE |
http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/chalice/place/century/10 |
English placenames in Cheshire? |
geolocated places |
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place gazetter |
Open database license, historic place name gazetteer, RDF (turtle)
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| PAS |
http://finds.org.uk/
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750,000 |
object catalogue |
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| ADS |
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/; http://data.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk
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| Lexicon of Greek Personal Names |
http://clas-lgpn2.classics.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/lgpn_search.cgi
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names of people 700bc-700ad |
placename of attestation |
250,000 entries |
person gazetteer |
data can be downloaded as TEI XML, JSON, KML, RDF, CSV.
Has caveat: "this data is still experimental. Do not make use of it for purposes other than demonstration." |
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Norwegian archaeological artefacts
|
http://www.unimus.no/arkeologi/ |
catalogue of artefacts
|
findspot |
100,000+
|
object catalogue |
web page table |
|
| Norwegian farm names |
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/rygh_ng/rygh_form.html
|
list of Norwegian farms, hyperlinks to Diplomatarium Norvegicum |
named |
10s of thousands |
name gazetteer |
web page table. electronic text with SGML mark up. |
|
| Diplomatarium Norvegicum |
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_field_eng.html |
Norwegian medieval charter |
place of issue |
16,000 diploma |
structured text collection |
web page table |
|
| geonames |
http://www.geonames.org |
worldwide modern places: The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge |
geolocated name |
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A daily GeoNames database dump can be downloaded in the form of a large worldwide text file (allCountries.zip). Postal codes are available as a separate download. Data is free; cc-by licence (creative commons attributions license); commercial usage is allowed; data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness; 30 000 requests daily limit per application (identified by the parameter 'username'), the hourly limit is 2000 requests. Service Level Agreement is available for premium web services.
Large number of data sources - see http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html for complete list. |
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| CLAROS |
http://data.clarosnet.org/ |
world art objects |
named places |
millons |
object catalogue |
RDF (CRM), SPARQL endpoint |
|
CultureSampo
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http://www.kulttuurisampo.fi/karttahaku.shtml
|
Finnish cultural heritage |
geolocated names |
millions |
cultural heritage |
not clear, but highly structured |
|
| British Museum |
http://collection.britishmuseum.org/Sparql/ |
objects in BM |
? |
lots |
museum object catalogue |
RDF (CRM),
SPARQL endpoint
|
|
| Cultura Italia |
http://www.culturaitalia.it/ |
Italian heritage |
place names in keywords |
millions |
heritage catalogue |
"Data providers" can contribute metadata through OAI-PMH. "Descriptive information on the cultural resources (hereafter “metadata”) whose rights of ownership are reserved by the content providers , who participate in CulturaItalia. The metadata, gathered into CulturaItalia’s repository by means of the OAI-PMH protocol and published in the Index, are covered by Italian and international copyright laws; therefore they cannot be, whether in whole or in part, reproduced, distributed, sold, transferred or modified." Thus it seems the metadata cannot be accessed and used by third parties without special permission. |
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| Europeana |
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/lod/
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heritage artifatcs
|
Geonames
|
|
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RDF as bulk download (N-Triples or RDF/XML) or an OpenLink Virtuoso DB: http://data.europeana.eu/download/1.0/README
RDF/XML as Linked Data: http://version1.europeana.eu/web/lod/
RDF is structured using the Europeana Data Model: http://version1.europeana.eu/web/lod/data
Specific subsets of data: http://version1.europeana.eu/web/lod/datasets
All data is made available under a CCO (public domain) open license.
|
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| Pleiades |
http://pleiades.stoa.org/ |
places in antiquity |
geolocated places |
|
place gazetteer |
Bulk downloads in CSV, KML, and RDF (Turtle). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by). |
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| Nomisma |
http://nomisma.org/ |
coins |
|
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Individual records can be downloaded as RDF (n3) or KML. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License. |
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| Swedish place names |
http://www2.sofi.se/SOFIU/topo1951/_cdweb/ |
Swedish place names |
Place names with links to scanned index cards |
3,7 million place name cards |
place index |
HTML tables. Licensing is unclear/unspecified.
|
|
| Arachne |
http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal/ |
antiquity object database |
place names |
lots |
object gazetteer |
Individual record or bulk access via OAI-PMH, in various flavors of XML (DublinCore, Cidoc CRM, raw XML, TEI P5, METS/MODS, and Atom). Cross references to Pelagios (via Pleiades) are available for bulk download as RDF. Licensed under a Creative Commons license (cc-by-nc-nd).
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| NAVIS I and II |
http://web.rgzm.de/29.html?&L=1; http://www2.rgzm.de/navis2/home/FramesE.cfm;
http://www2.rgzm.de/navis/home/frames.htm
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ship wrecks |
|
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place gazetteer |
No direct data access.
|
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| GAP |
http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/ |
place names in books |
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|
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Bulk download as RDF (N3), licensed as CC0 (public domain). |
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| AddressingHistory |
http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/
|
Historical post office directories |
Addresses with personal and business names |
thousands of entries |
API for structured data |
Access to data as KML, JSON or CSV via API: http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/api.jsp
Licensed under a an Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland Licence.
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Comments (6)
Øyvind Eide said
at 3:46 am on Dec 1, 2011
This is just a tiny selection, quite arbitrary, of what is available.
Sebastian Rahtz said
at 3:52 am on Dec 1, 2011
the list very much determined by cultural/professional background of participants...
Øyvind Eide said
at 4:24 am on Dec 1, 2011
Putting together an arbitrary group of people to make such a list in an hour only works to a certain degree. It may be the case that a more structured approach is necessary.
Keith May said
at 4:28 am on Dec 1, 2011
Try data.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk for archaeological Linked Data
Mia said
at 4:49 am on Dec 1, 2011
There's also a bunch of gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) APIs etc at http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs (which I'll update following this event with sources that aren't already listed)
Sebastian Rahtz said
at 4:57 am on Dec 1, 2011
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