Development of a Geospatial Gazetteer
A gazetteer is a list of place names together with their associated geographic location (e.g. latitude and longitude co-ordinates, geographical place name)
The demonstrator gazetteer service will illustrate:
- the use of a gazetteer to enhance the geographic searching of one or more existing DNER services
- the use of a gazetteer to assist in the semi-automatic geographic indexing of descriptions of DNER resources.
- reference use through the provision of a command driven web-based interface, to show the types of queries that could be answered by a well-populated service.