World Historical Gazetteer (WHG) is providing a collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.

Prefix

whg

License

CC-BY-NC-4.0

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in World Historical Gazetteer should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

12492249   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from World Historical Gazetteer should match this regular expression:
^whg:[0-9]+$

Example CURIE

whg:12492249

Contact

Missing Contact

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

NFDI4Objects Collection

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 12492249 is used to demonstrate the providers available for World Historical Gazetteer. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.