Bringing Places from the Distant Past to the Present: A Report on the World Historical Gazetteer
Abstract
This article is a report about the progress and current status of the World Historical Gazetteer (whgazetteer.org) (WHG) in the context of its value for helping to organize and record digital and paleographic information. It summarizes the development and functionality of the WHG as a software platform for connecting specialist collections of historical place names. It also reviews the idea of places as entities (rather than simple objects with single labels). It also explains the utility of gazetteers in digital library infrastructure and describes potential future developments.
Grossner, Karl, Susan Grunewald, and Ruth Mostern. 2023. “Bringing Places from the Distant Past to the Present: A Report on the World Historical Gazetteer.” International Journal on Digital Libraries 24 (3): 159–62. doi:10.1007/s00799-022-00341-2.