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 language | English |
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| Media of output | Online |
| Publication status | Accepted - 31 Oct 2013 |
Keywords
- Gazetteer
- Digital
- Infrastructure
- Big data
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)