Importing Gazetteers

In order to use geo-annotation functionality, import one or more gazetteers via the gazetteer administration page. The page is located at /admin/gazetteers. Note that you need to be logged in as a user with administrator privileges to access this page, e.g. the initial 'recogito' user.

Where to find gazetteer data files

Recogito supports upload of data files conforming to the Pelagios Gazetteer Interconnection Format. At the moment, the following gazetteers make their data available in this format :

• Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire. An up-to-date data file is maintained at http://dare.ht.lu.se/export_pelagios3.ttl.gz (For convenience, you can also find a snapshot of this file from February 2018 in the /gazetteers folder of this repository.)

• Vici.org. An up-to-date data file is maintained at http://vici.org/vici/all/rdf.

• China Historical GIS. A zipped file is available at http://github.com/vajlex/tgaz/tree/master/data/rdf. Unzip this file before uploading to Recogito.

In addition, we are maintaining a number of custom-built gazetteer packages that are also compatible with Recogito:

• A package based on the Pleiades Gazetteer of the Ancient World is available here. The package is built from Pleiades' nightly data dumps, but includes a few modifications specifically for use with Recogito (such as additional polygon region geometries).

• 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.