This is the geography thesaurus we set up. There are a lot of levels, primarily as our data is quite varied in its detail. We also
defined the regions using some google maps and thick red pen. We use the
We use alternate terms to define the names of old states or alternative spellings, which makes finding names easier. But again, this
throws up problems when the boundaries of the old state doesn’t correspond with the present boundaries.
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This is the basic outline of ours. Our geography is completely split out from our other attributes. So we just link the Geography Xrefs
directly to that.
From Continent we break down to county, then state, and county if applicable, then town, and even to local names within towns. Works
really well – we can search for somethink like all of
I hope that helps answer your question! Let me know if it doesn’t make sense…
D.
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I am really interested in how people have set up their Geography Authority scheme. --Suzanne
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Hi Suzanne –
Do you mean you are looking for what Geography Types people have created? Or how they’ve set up the actual Geography Authority scheme?
(We didn’t get the TGN either – being the Connecticut Historical Society, we figured we could add stuff like
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Hello, wise TMS users. Our museum did not get the TGN when we originally converted to TMS because most of the geographical terms were not needed for our collection
cataloguing. However, I am now trying to create an attribute that would make it easy to find all of the works created in
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