Maybe you need to talk to the Geo-Crosswalk Project, a collaboration of
the UKBorders service at EDINA and the History Data Service
Nat Evans is your best first contact
Bruce
Prof Bruce Royan, CEO, SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
http://www.scran.ac.uk/ tel (+44) 131 662 1211 fax(+44) 131 662 1511
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, John Faithfull wrote:
> Hello folks,
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> A very long-standing problem which I am revisiting... The UK is
> unusual in that it very regularly changes the way the country is
> administratively organised. This affects both boundaries, and names.
> Thus a term like Argyll can refer to very different areas depending
> on the date it was applied.
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> I am aware of several approaches to this:
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> -vice-counties (popular in biology)
> -current political boundaries (these are what appear on current maps
> after all - but for how long?)
> -the last lot of political boundaries
> -historical counties (eg RCAHMS county surveys)
> -Parishes (out of date - but at least they don't change much)
> others?
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> I suspect a lot of people just improvise, or never get over having a
> mix of the above.
>
> Is there a consensus as to what might be the best approach to this
> currently? Or any experiences of retrospective modification of
> data? The issue of how to distinguish editorial enhancements from
> original given data is a different matter, although also very
> important.
>
> Any comments appreciated...
>
> John
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> Dr. J.W. Faithfull
> Curator in Geology
> Hunterian Museum
> University of Glasgow
> UK
> G12 8QQ
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> Tel: 0141 330 4213
> Fax: 0141 330 8001
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