Chalice

same as
CHESHIRE geonames: Cheshire
was 980
Legeceaster scir
ACS(c)
was
Cestriae provincia

Cestriae provincia
was date
1085
Cestre Scire
source
DB date
1301
Cestreshire
source
Cestreshyre Pat

What are we trying to achieve with CHALICE?

We’re helping to create an historic placename gazetteer for the UK, publish
it as Linked Data and link it to other widely-used sources of placename
reference information on the semantic web - geonames.org, linkedgeodata.
org, the Ordnance Survey Research geographic ontologies.

We use Named Entity Recognition techniques to extract placename and

timescale reference information from texts, using digitised text from the
English Place Name Survey, published by the Institute for Name Studies at
the University of Nottingham.

Once we’ve bootstrapped our historic gazetteer, it can be used to greatly

improve the quality of future historic text mining efforts.

We’re engaging with projects and people outwith the usual scope of geographic information specialists; people who are holding archives
rich with implicit structured data, or people for whom a geographic means of exploring their archives could hold a lot of benefit.
What will we leave behind?

* A gazetteer with dense historic coverage (in theory back to the

Domesday era) for all recorded placenames and variants within a few
few areas of England (Shropshire and Cheshire)
* A Linked Data version of this gazettteer
* A simple web interface to annotate and correct the gazetteer data
and semi-automatically created links to other entities on the semantic
web
* A short series of case studies demonstrating use of the gazetteer and
its potential application to other, similar archives and services
* Ability to search through the gazetteer data using the JISC-supported
Unlock Places service