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Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer

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“A gazetteer associates geographic names (place names and feature names) with geographic locations and other descriptive information. … The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer combines the U.S. place names from the U.S. Geological Survey's GNIS database, the non-U.S. place names from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's GNS database, and other gazetteer datasets. The ADL Gazetteer item metadata is based on the ADL Gazetteer Content Standard; the feature types are based on the ADL Feature Type Thesaurus.”

General information
Vocabulary alternative name or acronym: 

ADL Gazetteer

Vocabulary type: 
gaz
Current version/edition : 
07/03/2002
Vocabulary URL: 

http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/

Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“A gazetteer can be used to find the geographic location of a named place, and conversely can be used to find all named places within a geographic area. These searches can be restricted to particular types of features, for example, to "hydrographic features," or more specifically, to just "lakes."”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Terms and Conditions
Availability: 
"The ADL Project has created a list of all of the names, both primary and alternative names, from its ADL Gazetteer and is making it available for download and local use within the limits of our copyright statement."
Availability Comments: 

"The ADL Project has created a list of all of the names, both primary and alternative names, from its ADL Gazetteer and is making it available for download and local use within the limits of our copyright statement. We anticipate that the list will be useful for geoparsing applications where geographic names need to be identified in natural language text. Each entry in the list, one line per entry, consists of (1) the ADL Gazetteer Identifier for the entry associated with the name; (2) the name; (3) the date of entry into the database.The ADL Gazetteer Identifier for particular entries can be used with the Gazetteer Service Protocol to retrieve standard reports for the entry. The size of the compressed file is 55.1 Mbytes; uncompressed it is approximately 263.7 Mbytes."

Licensing Options: 

All rights reserved. ADL is prepared to license the ADL Gazetteer Services and Gazetteer Database and to establish affiliations with commercial and institutional organizations to further the advancement of gazetteers and related services and research.

Import/download instructions : 

Downloadable from the website as a TAR file. A free HTTP/FTP client is available to facilitate downloads.

Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
Alexandria Digital Library, University of California at Santa Barbara
Provider URL: 

http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

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