Summary
The ADL gazetteer, a geospatially defined geographic name datasets or a
place-name index, allows a user to find earth features by typing in the name
associated with that feature, e.g., find the city of Santa Barbara or find all
references to the name "Santa Barbara" worldwide. The gazetteer database may be
... used as a spatial finding aid or as a stand-alone reference tool.

This is the new version of the ADL Gazetteer, based on the ADL Gazetteer
Content Standard. Currently it contains: NIMA Gazetteer, set of countries and
U.S. counties, set of U.S. topographic map quadrangle footprints, set of
volcanoes, and set of earthquake epicenters. The GNIS data has been partly
added to the collection. As of today, there are just under 4 million entries.

In process: USGS Gazetteer (GNIS) and GeoRef placenames from their thesaurus.

Related URL

Link: GET RELATED SERVICE METADATA (SERF) Description: The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. The GNIS is our Nation's official repository of domestic geographic names information.

Service Citation

Title: Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server Release_Date: 2004-02-26 Provider: University of California, Santa Barbara Edition: v. 3.2 URL: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

Service Keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING >CATALOGING DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION >GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES >GAZETTEER REFERENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES >THESAURI

Science Keywords

HUMAN DIMENSIONS >BOUNDARIES >ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS HUMAN DIMENSIONS >BOUNDARIES >POLITICAL DIVISIONS HUMAN DIMENSIONS >BOUNDARIES >BOUNDARY SURVEYS SOLID EARTH >VOLCANOES TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE >SNOW/ICE TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE >SURFACE WATER LAND SURFACE >LAND USE/LAND COVER >LAND COVER LAND SURFACE >LAND USE/LAND COVER >LAND USE CLASSES LAND SURFACE >LANDSCAPE >REFORESTATION BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >AGRICULTURAL LANDS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >ALPINE/TUNDRA BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >BEACHES BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >DESERTS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >DUNES BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >FORESTS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >GRASSLANDS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >ISLANDS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >KARST LANDSCAPE BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >MONTANE HABITATS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >SAVANNAS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >SHRUBLAND/SCRUB BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >URBAN LANDS BIOSPHERE >TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS >WETLANDS BIOSPHERE >AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS >WETLANDS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA FARMING BOUNDARIES INLAND WATERS GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER PLANNING CADASTRE ENVIRONMENT

Project

ADLP >Alexandria Digital Library Project

Access Constraints
You can only run one gazetteer session at a time, and your results are only
available for a short period of time (30 minutes, at present).

Use Constraints
This interface has been developed and tested using various browser. Different
browser quirks are outlined below:
Netscape 7/Mozilla:

Tool tips on result list do not wrap
Windows Internet Explorer 5/6:

Selecting File New Window will cause you to lose ... the last result set,because it
will restart your session.

Start a new IE window from the start menu or icon on the desktop.

Map sometimes gets confused. This is caused by IE 6 privacy settings. Some
settings can selectively block or accept cookies, in the same session. Because
the problem is intermittent, we do not have a solution.

Netscape < 5:
No tool tips

Ancillary Keywords

Geospatially referenced NIMA Gazetteer Geographically referenced Geographic

Service Provider

UC-SB/ADL > Alexandria Digital Library, University of California, Santa Barbara Service Organization URL: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/ Service Provider Personnel Name: LINDA HILL Phone: (805)893-7665 Fax: (805) 893-3045 Email: lhill at alexandria.ucsb.edu Contact Address: The Alexandria Digital Library University of California, Santa Barbara 1205 Girvetz Hall City: Santa Barbara Province or State: CA Postal Code: 93106 Country: United States

Distribution Media

Distribution_Media: Electronic Distribution_Format: HTML

Personnel

TYLER B. STEVENS Role: SERF AUTHOR Phone: (301) 614-6898 Fax: 301-614-5268 Email: Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Change Master Directory City: Greenbelt Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Publications/References
Hastings, J., & Hill, L. L. (2002, September 25-28). Treatment of "Duplicates" in the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer. Paper presented at the GeoScience 2002, Boulder, Colorado. Powerpoint presentation. http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/%7Ejordan/adlgaz/2i28_gisc02-preso.ppt

Hill, L. L. (2000). Core Elements of Digital Gazetteers: Placenames, Categories, and ... Footprints. (Submitted to the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Lisbon, Portugal, September 18-20, 2000.)

Hill, L. L., Frew, J., & Zheng, Q. (1999). Geographic names: The implementation of a gazetteer in a georeferenced digital library. D-Lib (January 1999). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/hill/01hill.html

Hill, L. (1999). Gazetteer and collection-level meatdata developments. In R. T. Kaser & V. C. Kaser (Eds.), Metadiversity. The Grand Challenge for Biodiversity Information Managment through Metadata. The Call for Community. Proceedings of the Symposium sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Div. & the National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (pp. 141-145): NFAIS (www.nfais.org).

Hill, L. L., & Zheng, Q. (1999). Indirect geospatial referencing through place names in the digital library: Alexandria Digital Library experience with developing and implementing gazetteers. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Oct. 31- Nov. 4, 1999, pp. 57-69.

Creation and Review Dates

SERF Creation Date: SERF Last Revision Date: 2009-03-26

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