Guidelines #
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Spatial coverage is about the content of item and refers to a geographic location, and not to proper place names such as buildings or human-created landmarks.
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In the repository Work dashboard, this property is configured to fetch controlled geographic location data from the GeoNames webservice .
- Enter the geographic location into the form, then select from the list retrieved from GeoNames. This populates the value with a URI for the location, which serves as linked geographic data.
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As an alternative to GeoNames, the LDR also supports Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names linked data service .
- TGN is recommended as a controlled vocabulary source if the item or collection deals primarily with historical location information, for example political or geographic names that are no longer in existence.
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Proper names for buildings, neighborhoods, geographic regions, or other non- controlled location information can be entered in the Keyword property.