historical geocoder for the netherlands
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Historical Geocoder
Joop VanderheidenCultural Heritage Agency
Special thanks to:Menno den EngelseIslands of Meaning
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Mission
“... create a geocoder for the cultural heritage field...”
So, what do those cultural heritage people want then?Question?
• Standardization of geographic terms• Geometries • Time
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Team• Developers: Jelle Herold (Waag) & Bert Spaan (Waag now NYPL)
• Developers: Petra Dreiskämper & Menno den Engelse
• DEN: Rein van 't Veer & Ralph Kits
• Cultural Heritage Agency: Joop Vanderheiden
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Histograph Datamodel
PiTs (Places in Time)• a PiT comes from a dataset (the authority lies with the author)• has a URI or an id• has a type• can have a name• can have a geometry• can have a periodisation
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Ontology
hg:PiTType
prov:Entity
time:TemporalEntit
y
geo:Feature
Hg:PiT
Xsd:string
hg:hasGeoFeauture
hg:hasTimeTeporalEntity
hg:hasProvEntity
hg:hasPiTType
hg:hasName
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Hongerige Wolf (Hungry Wolf) is a hamlet with a population of 30 in the municipality of Oldambt in the Netherlands.
PiT
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Relations between PiT’s
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Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
Hg:PiT
owl:sameAs
hg:absorbedBy
hg:within
hg:isUsedFor
hg:absorbed
hg:contains
PiT’s sameAs
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hgConcept
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LiesIn
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Events
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A lot of PiT’s
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DatasetsThe Big 4• Geonames• TGN (The Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names)• BAG (Key Registers of Addresses and Buildings)• NWB (National Roads Database)
Cover places, municipalities, streets, buildings, etc. But, (almost) no historical data.
Place toponyms from historic sources:• Simon Hart• Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap (Illustrious Brotherhood of Our
Blessed Lady)• 500+ 'Verdwenen Dorpen'
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Verdwenen dorpen
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MunicipalitiesGemeentegeschiedenis
• Historical municipalities• Historical geometries
Toponyms mainly from militieregisters (Vele Handen).
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Militieregisters
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RosendaalRoosendaal
Streets• NWB geometries• BAG id's
Historical data abundant, yet hard to get.There should be a 'Historisch Straatnamen Register'
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Historical streetnames
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Streetnames
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Churchillaan
RooseveltlaanStalinlaan
Destalinisation
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BuildingsBAG• Buildingnames from monumentenregister• Lost Buildings
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Lost buildings
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Country’s
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Neighbourhoods
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Where to find?http://www.erfgeo.nl• Geothesaurus• Tool to standardise placenames• Histodraw
API• https://api.histograph.io
Github• https://github.com/histograph/
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Example: Zee
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Thesaurus
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API
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Erfgeoproxy
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Nieuwmarkt 4
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Elephant in the room
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