Recommendations for language areas, linguistics-specific geographic entities

[Helen Aristar-Dry]

Hi, Jeff,

Good questions.  In an advance planning meeting for LL-MAP (Language and 
Location:  A Map Annotation Project), it was decided that Oesten Dahl 
would serve as the authority on place-names for our project, since he 
has given considerable thought to the deficiencies of existing 
standardized lists.  I will forward your questions to him to see if he 
has been using any lists of linguistics-specific geographic entities or 
geographic types.  If so, OLAC might want to consider them.

Best,
-Helen



Jeff Good wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone out there thought about a namespace for linguistics- specific 
> geographic entities (e.g., "the Balkan Sprachbund"). For  entities with 
> more than linguistic relevance, this is the DC  recommendation:
> 
> http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
> 
> Similarly, has anyone thought about what sort of geographic types we  
> might want to classify a resource as belong to ("country",
> "sprachbund", etc.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff