Importing Gazetteers

In order to use geo-annotation functionality in Recogito, you need to import one or more gazetteers. Recogito supports upload of data dumps conforming to the RDF-based Pelagios Gazetteer Interconnection Format.

At the moment, the following gazetteers offer their data for download in this format :

• Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. Compressed RDF/Turtle file at http://dare.ht.lu.se/export_pelagios3.ttl.gz (For convenience, a snapshot from February 2018 is included in the /gazetteers folder of this repository.)

• Vici.org. RDF/XML file at http://vici.org/vici/all/rdf

• China Historical GIS. Zipped RDF/Turtle file at http://github.com/vajlex/tgaz/tree/master/data/rdf

--- Work in progress ---

In addition, Recogito has specific

• You can import this gazetteer to Recogito on the Gazetteer Administration page at http://localhost:9000/admin/gazetteers. Note that you need to be logged in with a user that has administrator privileges (e.g. the default 'recogito').
• WARNING the admin pages are work in progress. Don't expect any fancy functionality or styling there yet! Importing gazetteers can take a while, and there is no progress display yet. Bear with us. You can track progress through Recogito's JSON Place API at http://localhost:9000/api/place/search?q=*&pretty=true
• It's not possible to upload controlled vocabularies for persons, periods or events yet.