In recent years gazetteers based on semantic web technologies were discussed as an effective way to describe, formalize and standardize place data by using contextual information as a method to structure and distinguish places from each other. While research concerning semantic gazetteers with regard to historical places has pointed out the importance of enabling the creation of a global and epoch-spanning gazetteer, we want to emphasize the importance of taking a domain oriented approach as well – in our case, focusing on places set in medieval and early modern times. By discussing the topic from the historians’ perspective, we will be able to identify a number of challenges that are specific to the semantic representation of places set in these time periods. We will then do a survey of existing gazetteer projects that are taking historical places into account. This will enable us to find out which technologies and practices already exist, that can meet the demands of a gazetteer that considers the time specific geographic, social and administrative structures of medieval and early modern times. Finally we will develop a catalogue of design practices for such a semantic gazetteer. Our recommendations will be derived from these existing solutions as well as from our epoch-specific challenges identified before.

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面向中世纪和早期现代地方的语义地名词典的源自挑战的设计实践

近年来，讨论了基于语义Web技术的地名词典，它是一种使用上下文信息作为构造和区分场所的方法来描述，形式化和标准化场所数据的有效方法。虽然有关历史地点的语义地名词典的研究指出了创建全球性和跨时代的地名词典的重要性，但我们还是要强调采用面向领域的方法的重要性–在我们的案例中，着眼于地点设置在中世纪和近代早期。通过从历史学家的角度讨论该主题，我们将能够确定许多挑战，这些挑战特定于这些时间段中设置的地点的语义表示。然后，我们将对考虑历史位置的现有地名词典项目进行调查。这将使我们能够找出已经存在的技术和实践，可以满足地名索引的需求，该地名索引考虑了中世纪和近现代的特定时间地理，社会和行政结构。最后，我们将为这种语义地名词典开发设计实践的目录。我们的建议将来自这些现有解决方案以及之前确定的特定时代的挑战。最后，我们将为这种语义地名词典开发设计实践的目录。我们的建议将来自这些现有解决方案以及之前确定的特定时代的挑战。最后，我们将为这种语义地名词典开发设计实践的目录。我们的建议将来自这些现有解决方案以及之前确定的特定时代的挑战。