Subject: GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES RELEASED
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:54:14 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130511b0d953cd1558@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:54:14 -0500 To: NINCH-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES RELEASED
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 7, 1998
GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES RELEASED
<http://www.gii.getty.edu/tgn_browser>
>Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 14:34:37 -0800
>From: Laila Lalami <LLalami@getty.edu>
>To: NINCH-announce@cni.org
>Cc: pharpring@getty.edu, pyoung@getty.edu
>Subject: Release of TGN -Reply
Introducing the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The Getty Information Institute is pleased to announce the release of
its latest vocabulary tool, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
(TGN).
Described as "an important and promising start in efforts to create a
unified source for geographic name information around the globe," the
TGN is intended to be a source of geographic names for documenting and
retrieving cultural heritage information. For example, geographic names
may be used to record the current location of an art object, its place
of origin and the sites of an artist's birth, activity and death.
The TGN is the product of eight years of research and is based on data
provided by several Getty projects. The nearly 900,000 places in the
TGN are arranged in a hierarchical structure representing all nations of
the modern world. This hierarchy is arranged from broader to narrower
context (e.g., continents, nations, states, provinces, cities etc.).
The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names
in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record
for a place may also contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes.
The TGN is available in three formats: on the Web, as tagged ASCII
files, and in relational tables. The Web version is available at
<http://www.gii.getty.edu/tgn_browser>. The relational tables and
tagged ASCII files will be available upon request in early 1998.
The TGN will be expanded with the addition of new names and historical
places. While we continue to collaborate with various Getty
contributors, the growth of the TGN depends on our forming partnerships
with other institutions interested in contributing their expertise to
the development of the resource.
CONTACTS
If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the TGN, please
contact the Getty Information Institute's Vocabulary Program at
(310) 440 6364 or send e-mail to <pharpring@getty.edu>. Comments and
questions about the TGN may be sent to <tgn@getty.edu>. The Vocabulary
Program also plans to host several training sessions on the TGN. If you
are interested in training, please e-mail <vocab@getty.edu>.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a16 : Tue Mar 23 1999 - 03:56:44 EST