This theme issue is focused on semantic historical gazetteers, but “semantic gazetteers” should not be interpreted simply as meaning gazetteers which are represented in the languages of the semantic web, i.e., in Resource Description Framework (RDF) or Web Ontology Language (OWL). Defining semantic gazetteers as “URI-based” is substantially more meaningful: in this case, gazetteer entities are identified not primarily by a name or a location, but by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), meaning a string of text that is not only unique within the particular gazetteer, but works as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) within the World Wide Web (Hart and Dolbear 2013). This means that identifiers from different gazetteers can be used in combination, or translated between. Many of these potentials are being explored by the Pelagios project (Isaksen Simon, Barker, and de Soto Cañamares 2014).

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GB1900：从军械测量“县级系列”中进行的大规模地名词典建设工作吸引公众参与：英国测绘1：10,560

这个主题问题的重点是语义历史地名词典，但“语义地名词典”不应简单地解释为以语义网的语言（即资源描述框架（RDF）或Web本体语言（OWL））表示的含义地名。 。将语义地名词典定义为“基于URI”实际上更有意义：在这种情况下，地名词典实体主要不是通过名称或位置来标识，而是通过统一资源标识符（URI）来标识，这意味着不仅是一串文本在特定的地名词典中是唯一的，但是在万维网中用作统一资源定位符（URL）（Hart和Dolbear，2013年）。这意味着可以组合使用不同地名索引的标识符，也可以在它们之间进行翻译。Pelagios项目正在探索其中的许多潜力（Isaksen Simon，