On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Andrew Daviel wrote:
> Paul Miller wrote:
>
> > adoption of a sensible and fairly intelligent system like TGN
>
> Sounds good. Is this on the net anywhere ? As a "nethead" I have a problem
> with writing HTML guides that say "look this up in some 10kg lump of paper
> available for $400 or at your local academic library..." - a bit tricky if
> you happen to be on Baffin Island or on a sailboat somewhere with
> a satellite link. :-)
The Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names is currently due for release
later this year, and will hopefully join its sister [why are these things
female?] products from the Getty Information Institute (the Art and
Architecture Thesaurus at http://www.gii.getty.edu/aat_browser/ and Union
List of Artist's Names at http://www.gii.getty.edu/ulan_browser/) on the
web after release, as well as being available in more traditional
electronic and paper media...
Other than a few brief mentions on the Getty site (such as
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/gii/cdwa/examples/owyoung/start/tgn.htm) I've
not come across much mention of TGN online yet. There is, however, an
article on it in Vol 2/3 (March 1997)of the UK Museum Documentation
Association's MDA Information. The article is by Patricia Harpring, and
the MDA website is at http://www.open.gov.uk/mdocassn/index.htm.
I've done a review of that issue of MDA Information (on geospatial issues
for Museums) which I hope will appear in the Autumn issue of Archives &
Museum Informatics (http://www.archimuse.com/armu.call.html), and this
will discuss some of the obvious benefits that TGN offers. Also, the ADS
hopes to use TGN as the basis for ALL place names, where possible, and
we're aiming to adopt a TGN-like structure for names not yet in TGN.
Hope that helps,
Paul
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