Hi - I was wondering if I could get some feedback from other institutions on
what geographic thesaurus / controlled vocabulary for place names is used
with your collections management system and also whether you find this
adequate for the scope of your collections?
At the Ashmolean we are currently using an internally-created thesaurus for
geographic place names, which is flexible, but not ideal in some other
respects, as requires quite a bit of maintenance (e.g. ensuring new terms
are added into the correct part of the thesaurus structure). The obvious
alternative would be the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN i.e.
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html ), but when
we last looked at this found it did not seem to deal well with places
outside Europe and the U.S., or ones of archaeological (rather than more
recent) interest. What other alternatives exist that are not too restricted
in scope? Thanks
regards
Paul
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