Digital Exposure of English Place-names (DEEP)

Paul Ell, Jayne Carroll, Stuart Dunn (Other)

    Research output: Non-textual formWeb publication/site

    Abstract

    Place-names are a fundamental concept in all academic collections: everything happens somewhere. Contemporary place-names are comprehensively represented in digital gazetteer and geospatial web services such as GeoNames. However, despite millions of pounds of investment by JISC and other agencies in historical online resources in recent years, there is currently no equivalent for historic place-names. This project will digitize the entire 86 volume corpus of the Survey of English Place-Names (SEPN), the ultimate authority on historic place-names in England, and make its 4 million forms available.
    Original languageEnglish
    Media of outputOnline
    Publication statusAccepted - 31 Oct 2013

    Keywords

    • Gazetteer
    • Digital
    • Infrastructure
    • Big data

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Arts and Humanities

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