Silent Disco: Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer
Online
Our 'Silent Disco' workshops are based on tutorials from the Programming Historian website. This training event will follow content from the tutorial, Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer.
This lesson teaches how to create a digital gazetteer from a historical text using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format. A gazetteer records place names, spatial extents, and historical data, offering a structured knowledge system to connect places, events, and people across time. It is a key tool for spatial history and digital humanities.
This is a beginner-level training. No programming skills are required to complete this lesson. You just need to be familiar with creating and working with spreadsheets.
The workshop will take place via Microsoft Teams in a ‘Silent Disco’ format. Participants will work on the tutorial at their own pace. The facilitator will be available via Teams Chat to reply to any questions that arise during the workshop, and to help with installation, troubleshooting or other issues.
To attend this course, you will have to join the associated Microsoft Teams group. The link to join the group will be sent to attendees prior to the course start date, so please make sure to do so in advance.
This Silent Disco will be facilitated by Ki Tong.
After taking part in this event, you may decide that you need some further help in applying what you have learnt to your research. If so, you can book a Data Surgery meeting with one of our training fellows.
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If you’re new to this training event format, or to CDCS training events in general, read more on what to expect from CDCS training. Here you will also find details of our cancellation and no-show policy, which applies to this event.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the concept of place.
- Define what a gazetteer is and distinguish it from other forms of spatial information.
- Identify scenarios for which creating a gazetteer may be preferable to using a geographic information system.
- Transform a historical text into a gazetteer.
- Share a gazetteer with other platforms to enhance it and use it for analytical purposes.
If you're interested in other training on geospatial analysis, have a look at the following:
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