LoCloud Historic Place Names Service, Rimvydas Laužikas, Justinas Jaronis and Ingrida Vosyliūtė Vilnius University Faculty of Communication

Local  content  in  a  Europeana  cloud    

Historical  Place  Names  microservice  

LoCloud  is  funded  by  the    European  Commission's  ICT  Policy  Support  Programme  

Rimvydas  Laužikas,  Jus<nas  Jaronis,  Ingrida  Vosyliūtė  Vilnius  University  Faculty  of  CommunicaAon  

•  Do  you  know  the  Kingdom  of  Leon?  

•  Have  you  ever  met  a  person  from  Semigallia?  

•  Have  you  ever  been  to  Aquinicum?  

•  Do  you  know  where  AtlanAs  or  Narnia  are  located?  

Local  history  researcher?        Local  history  database    

administrator?  

Who  are  you?  

OR  

If  YES  –  you  definitely  need  HPN  microservice  

If  NO  –  you  definitely  need  HPN  microservice  

What  is  HPN  microservice?  

•  HPN  are  not  contemporary  place  names,  they  are  place  names  that  existed  in  history  and  are  menAoned  in  different  historical  sources.  

•  HPN  microservice  is  an  applicaAon  which  enables  local  cultural  insAtuAons  to  collaborate  in  developing  the  Thesaurus  of  HPN  and  enriching  ingested  metadata.  

•  HPN  microservice  is  a  semi-­‐automaAc  historical  geo-­‐informaAon  management  funcAon  and  web  service.  

•  HPN  microservice  was  developed  by  VUFC  and  AIT  working  with  Athena  RC  building  on  the  results  of  the  CARARE  project.  

How  to  do  it?  

GeMng  started  

•  HPN  –  home  page  •  Search/Propose  

HPN  –  searching  Thesaurus  and  proposing  a  new  place  name  

•  Send  HPN  database  –  sharing  your  data  

•  Web  Service  –  using  API  

•  Documenta<on  –  microservice  descripAon    

•  Registra<on  –  exploring  other  possibiliAes  

hQp://hpn.aksprendimai.lt/unitedgeo/  

Two  user  cases  

AND  

Local  history  researcher  [not  registered  user]  

•  to  verify  the  availability  of  historical  place  name  in  the  LoCloud  HPN  Thesaurus  

•  to  get  informaAon  about  the  interconnecAon  of  HPN  with  contemporary  place  names,  its  linguisAc  variaAons  and  geographical  coordinates    

•  to  propose  HPN  as  a  new  place  name  for  the  LoCloud  HPN  Thesaurus  

To  verify  the  availability  of  historical  place  name  in  the  LoCloud  HPN  

Thesaurus  

1.  Click  on  „Search/propose  HPN“    

2.  Enter  Place  name,  or  coordinates,  or  click  on  the  map  

3.  Click  “Submit”    *NB.  Region  –  subregion  –country  –  are  not  necessary  fields  (addiAonal  for  more  accurate  search)  

•  HPN  –  Danzig  •  Contemporary  place  

name  –  Gdańsk  (Poland)  •  Coordinates  –POINT  

(18.6463700000000010;  54.3520499999999984)  

•  LinguisAc  variaAons  –  Гданьск,  Gdanskas...    

HPN  is  available,    e.  g.  Danzig  

•  Click  „Add  place  to  match  with“  and  add  the  new  contemporary  place  to  this  HPN  (see  next  slide)  

HPN  is  available,  but  it‘s  not  what  I  hoped,  e.g  Atlan<s  

•  Click  „Add  place  to  match  with“  •  Fill  the  fields:  -­‐  United  geoname:  user  proposed  matching  to  contemporary  geoname    -­‐  Geographical  distance:  distance  between  centre    of  the  proposed  place  and  the  centre  of    

matched  contemporary  geoname  -­‐  Remark  –  remarks  about  proposed  HPN    -­‐  Best  match  –  must  be  Acked  by  user  •  Click  “Submit”  

HPN  is  not  available,    e.g  Narnia  

•  All  geonames  proposed  by  user  will  be  verified  by  the  system  administrator  and  a  peer  reviewer    

•  Aser  verificaAon  process  proposed  geonames  could  be  approved  or  denied  

Local  history  database  administrator  

[registered  user]  •  to  export  selected  LoCloud  HPN  

Thesaurus  data  sets  (informaAon  about  interconnected  contemporary  place  names,  different  historical  and  linguisAc  place  name  forms  and  geographical  coordinates)  

•  to  enrich  local  system  with  exported  HPN  geo-­‐data    

•  to  collaborate  in  developing  the  LoCloud  HPN  Thesaurus  by  sending  your  local  data  or  contacAng  us  

Enriching  local  databse  

CURL  example:  we  search  for  Vilnius!  curl  -­‐u  hpndemo:dslkajco43  -­‐X  POST  hup://tautosaka.llA.lt/api/hpn/search/  -­‐d  '{"name":  "Vilnius"}'  -­‐-­‐header  "Content-­‐Type:  applicaAon/json"  It  will  return  us  a  long  list  of  matched  Vilnius  synonims,  as  documented.  

{"coordinates": "POINT (25.2798000000000016 54.6891600000000011)"}    curl -u hpndemo:dslkajco43 -X POST http://tautosaka.llti.lt/api/hpn/search/ -d '{"coordinates": "POINT (25.2798000000000016 54.6891600000000011)"}' --header "Content-Type: application/json"  

CURL  example:  we  can  search  by  coordinates  too!  

Results  are  limited  to  9km  threshold.  Result  list  is  exact  as  searching  with  Vilnius  

HTTP 200 OK  Content-Type: application/json  Vary: Accept  Allow: POST, OPTIONS  [   {   "synonims": [   {   "id": 44,   "united_geoname": 10,   "name": "Vilnius",   "content_type": 339,   "object_id": 593116,   "synonim_name": "Vilnius",   "synonim_content_type": 350,   "synonim_object_id": 1980020,   "language": "",   "identifier": "Alt. name",   "coordinates": "POINT (25.2798000000000016 54.6891600000000011)",   "temporal": []   },  ….....................................   ],   "id": 10,   "main_name": "Vilnius",   "region": "Vilniaus Apskritis",   "subregion": "Vilnius",   "country": "Lithuania",   "centroid": "POINT (25.2798000000000016 54.6891600000000011)"  

Collabora<ng  in  the  LoCloud  HPN  Thesaurus  development  

CURL  example:  we  post  “Virbalis”  synonim  with  known  establishment  date  1214-­‐06-­‐01      curl  -­‐u  hpndemo:dslkajco43  -­‐X  POST  hup://tautosaka.llA.lt/api/hpn/  -­‐d  '{"name":  "Virbalis",  "temporal":  [{"date_from":"1214-­‐06-­‐01",  "date_from_format":  "D"}]}'  -­‐-­‐header  "Content-­‐Type:  applicaAon/json"    It  will  return  a  list  of  matched  synonims  and  internal  record  ID,  as  documented.  

HTTP 200 OK Content-Type: application/json Vary: Accept Allow: GET, POST,  HEAD, OPTIONS  {   "matched_places": [   {   "synonims": [   {   "id": 44,   "united_geoname": 10,   "name": "Virbalis",   "content_type": 339,   "object_id": 593116,   "synonim_name": "Vilnius",   "synonim_content_type": 350,   "synonim_object_id": 1980020,   "language": "",   "identifier": "Alt. name",   "coordinates": "POINT (25.2798000000000016 54.6891600000000011)",   "temporal": []   },  

Temporal  informa<on  

If  possible,  please  provide  Temporal  informaAon  with  Your  submiued  synonim.  

Example:    "temporal":  [  {                                  "date_from":  "2013-­‐05-­‐01",                                    "date_to":  "2014-­‐06-­‐01",                                    "date_from_approx":  true,                                    "date_to_approx":  false,                                    "date_from_precision":  "D",                                    "date_to_precision":  null,                                    "calendar_type":  "G",                                    "is_interval":  true                          }]  

Field  explana<ons:  "is_interval": boolean, that describes date as single date (only date_from) or interval (date_to);  

"date_from", "date_to": ISO 8601-encoded dates, meaning start and end of period;  

"date_from_approx",  "date_to_approx":  booleans,  describing  if  start  or  end  date  is  known  approximately;    "date_from_precision",  "date_to_precision":    precision,  determining  how  precise  date  record  is.  Possible  values:  D  –  day;  M  –  month;  Y  –  year;  C  –  century    "calendar_type":  "G"  for  Gregorian,  “J”  for  Julian  

Ques<ons?      

Find  microservice:  hQp://hpn.aksprendimai.lt/unitedgeo/  User  documenta<on:  hQp://hpn.aksprendimai.lt/media/cms_page_media/34/

HPN_users_documenta<on.pdf  API  documenta<on:  hQp://hpn.aksprendimai.lt/media/cms_page_media/32/

locloud_d35_hpn_microservice_2014-­‐08-­‐29v10_webserice.pdf  Email  us:  [email protected],  jus<[email protected],  

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