I want to create a set of maps to accompany an ancient Chinese historical text (ca. 100 BC). I want to be able to encode location (with some ambiguity), associated people and their movements, administration, and time. I know xml, so I'd much prefer to use an xml language. So I want to ask, what xml standards are available? And what are their advantages and disadvantages? I would also like to know about other historical mapping projects that use xml languages.
Thanks!
Scott
xml standards for encoding geographic information from a historical text?
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Scott
MemberPosted 4 years ago Permalink -
Hi there,
Although I'm biased, I would suggest using the TEI guidelines for this. It has a fairly flexible vocabulary for recording place information (and people). See for example http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ND.html#NDGEOG (though the whole chapter is relevant). It is fairly generalised and flexible which has its good points and bad points.
-James
Posted 4 years ago Permalink -
KaCeBe
MemberReplying to @Scott's post:
kml would be a good alternative. It's xml, it's an open standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml) and it's quite flexible concerning spatiotemporal datasets (http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/time.html)
Posted 4 years ago Permalink -
Conal Tuohy
MemberBest AnswerI think you would probably want to use both TEI and KML. It's more appropriate to encode the text in TEI including the geospatial and other data, and the KML could be produced as a presentation format from the TEI source using an XSLT transform. Apart from KML, there is also the standard GML which is widely used in geospatial web services.
You should definitely take a look at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/findings/index.html and in particular at this output: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/herodotus/basic.html
Posted 4 years ago Permalink -
You might want to have a look at the XML format associated with GeoNames.
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