University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6133)
Ruth Mostern (Project Director: July 2016 to October 2022)
PW-253719-17
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$315,000 (approved)
$315,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2017 – 12/31/2020
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World-Historical Gazetteer
This is a project to create
content, standards and digital infrastructure for a World-Historical Gazetteer
(WHG): a spatially and temporally comprehensive index of significant world
historical place names (a Spine), and a system for collaborative digital and
data-driven historical scholarship at the global scale (an Ecosystem). It focuses significantly but not exclusively
on the centuries since 1500, so as to dovetail with synergistic efforts devoted
to the ancient and medieval world.
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