Welcome to the ADL Gazetteer Ingest Workstation
Rough sketch for design/purpose discussions, 2002-10, Hill

Select gazetteer ADL Personal Enter ID Submit

Select function Add direct Add import Edit Search Administer Submit

Add, Stage 1a: Enter initial data

Enter

1. Name

2. Class Scheme FTT Local Method Term advisory Search scheme Select from list Enter directly Term(s) +

3. Footprint Type point box LlneString polygon multiPoint multiLineString multiPolygon other Method From Map Browser Enter directly Import

Coordinate syntax: longitude,latitude longitude,latitude ...

Point: __,__ View

Box: __,__ __,__ View

Polygon: __,__ __,__ __,__ __,__ ... View

4. Search for duplicate/near-duplicate entries

Use the following for search: Name Type Footprint

Gazetteer(s) to search All ADL Personal In Process

Set search and sorting preferences Go

Submit

Add, Stage 1b: Import set of gazetteer data

Input file

Conversion script GNIS NIMA ESRI GeoRef

Output file

Search for duplicate/near-duplicate entries

Use the following for search: Name Type Footprint

Gazetteer(s) to search All ADL Personal In Process

Set search and sorting preferences Go

Submit

Add, Stage 2: Duplicate Checking Results

Gazetteer +

Merge results from multiple gazetteers Yes No

Sort by Weighted value similarity Spatial similarity Name similarity Type similarity

Result list

view select Entry 1
view select Entry 2
view select Entry 3
...

Add, Stage 3: Edit & Submit

Input:

Entered data
Selected entry from gazetteer
Merge

Entered data
Selected entry from gazetteer
Selected entries from gazetteer(s)

Minimum or full entry:

Standard record Extended record

[User adds and edits data, including source information]

Submit

[Validation step and feedback loop]

Final copy of submitted record for local storage

Search

Gazetteer(s) All ADL Personal

Parameters

ID Submit

Name

Type Expand: Narrower Broader Related
OR
Type Expand: Narrower Broader Related

Footprint

If point: radius = miles
If box: expand = miles
If line: buffer = miles
If polygon: buffer = miles All N S E W

Sort/rank order:

Calculated similarity based on

name, type, and footprint
name only
type only
footprint only

Sort by

name
type

Submit search

Administration

Activity log

Set preferences

Gazetteer list

• Set primary gazetteer
• Add/delete gazetteer from list

Type scheme

• Set primary type scheme
• Add/delete type scheme from list

Build/maintain source list

• Add source
• Edit source
• Delete source