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Announcement: New Gazetteer Server Client - 2003-07-14

A new client for the ADL Gazetteer has been developed and will eventually replace the current client to the ADL Gazetteer Server. The new client retains the basic look and functionality of the existing interface, but underneath it has been completely redesigned. It is now based on the ADL Gazetteer Protocol; consequently it can be pointed at any gazetteer that has a protocol server implementation. This new client points not only to the ADL Gazetteer, but also to the ESRI gazetteer. Please try it out and use the Problem Report or the Comment link to send us feedback.

This version of the Gazetteer Content Standard (GCS) includes significant changes from the original GCS. The revision process has now been frozen for this release. A logical relational database model has been developed for this version and has been implemented by ADL in PostGreSQL. See the Guide to the ADL Gazetteer Content Standard for more information.

The ADL Gazetteer Service Protocol has been published. This specification supports remote query and response functions for distributed digital gazetteers and has been developed in collaboration with ESRI. On the referenced page, there are also two links to test forms. The Hands-on Introduction provides various types of queries for demonstration and experimentation; the Test Forms provide tests of the various protocol functions for validation and debugging.

ADL announces that it 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. For more information, contact Larry Carver or Linda Hill.

We have established a listserv for the discussion of gazetteer design, implementation, and research. The name of it is CGGR-L; it is hosted by UCSB's Center for Global Georeferencing Research. To subscribe, address your email to listserv@listserv.ucsb.edu, leave the subject line blank, enter subscribe cggr-l [your name] in the body of the message (note: the "-l" stands for "-list") and send the message. The archives for the CGGR-L are hosted by the NSF.

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.

• To download the file, click here and save a copy on a local drive.

This file contains the ADL copyright statement and the compressed file of geographic names. If you are having trouble downloading because the file is large and transmission is interrupted, you might want to get the free HTTP/FTP client that can resume interrupted downloads where they leftoff, instead of having to start over. We would appreciate hearing from those who put the file to use.

Hastings, J., & Hill, L. L. (2002, September 25-28). Treatment of "Duplicates" in the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer. Paper presented at the GeoScience 2002, Boulder, Colorado. Powerpoint presentation.

Hill, L. L. (2000). Core elements of digital gazetteers: placenames, categories, and footprints. In J. Borbinha & T. Baker (Eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries : Proceedings of the 4th European Conference, ECDL 2000 Lisbon, Portugal, September 18-20, 2000 (pp. 280-290). Berlin: Springer. PDF file.

Hill, L. L., Frew, J., & Zheng, Q. (1999). Geographic names: The implementation of a gazetteer in a georeferenced digital library. D-Lib (January 1999). HTML file.

Hill, L. (1999). Gazetteer and collection-level metadata developments. In R. T. Kaser & V. C. Kaser (Eds.), Metadiversity. The Grand Challenge for Biodiversity Information Managment through Metadata. The Call for Community. Proceedings of the Symposium sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Div. & the National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (pp. 141-145): NFAIS. HTML file.

Hill, L. L., & Zheng, Q. (1999). Indirect geospatial referencing through place names in the digital library: Alexandria Digital Library experience with developing and implementing gazetteers. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Oct. 31- Nov. 4, 1999, pp. 57-69. PDF file.