Recommendations for language areas, linguistics-specific geographic entities
Helen Aristar-Dry
hdry at LINGUISTLIST.ORG
Tue Mar 14 14:16:13 UTC 2006
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
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