appears_in: []
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: true
description: 'TGN is a structured vocabulary currently containing around 1,106,000
  names and other information about places. Names for a place may include names in
  the vernacular language, English, other languages, historical names, names and in
  natural order and inverted order. Among these names, one is flagged as the preferred
  name. TGN is a thesaurus, compliant with ISO and NISO standards for thesaurus construction;
  it contains hierarchical, equivalence, and associative relationships. Note that
  TGN is not a GIS (Geographic Information System). While many records in TGN include
  coordinates, these coordinates are approximate and are intended for reference only.
  The focus of each TGN record is a place. There are around 912,000 places in the
  TGN. In the database, each place record (also called a subject) is identified by
  a unique numeric ID. Linked to the record for the place are names, the place''s
  parent or position in the hierarchy, other relationships, geographic coordinates,
  notes, sources for the data, and place types, which are terms describing the role
  of the place (e.g., inhabited place and state capital). The temporal coverage of
  the TGN ranges from prehistory to the present and the scope is global. The TGN is
  a hierarchical database; its trees branch from a root called Top of the TGN hierarchies
  (Subject_ID: 1000000). Currently there are two TGN facets, World and Extraterrestrial
  Places. Under the facet World, places are arranged in hierarchies generally representing
  the current political and physical world, although some historical nations and empires
  are also included. There may be multiple broader contexts, making the TGN polyhierarchical.
  The primary users of the Getty vocabularies include museums, art libraries, archives,
  visual resource collection catalogers, bibliographic projects concerned with art,
  researchers in art and art history, and the information specialists who are dealing
  with the needs of these users. In addition, a significant number of users of the
  Getty vocabularies are students or members of the general public.'
example: '1023371'
example_extras: []
homepage: https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/
keywords: []
mappings:
  bartoc: '109'
  wikidata.entity: Q1520117
name: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
pattern: ^\d+$
preferred_prefix: tgn
prefix: tgn
providers: []
publications: []
references:
- https://obo-communitygroup.slack.com/archives/C023P0Z304T/p1638380238036200
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/$1
