The Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a terminology that focuses on places relevant to art, architecture, and related disciplines, recording names, relationships, place types, dates, notes, and coordinates for current and historical cities, nations, empires, archaeological sites, lost settlements, and physical features. The TGN is one of 5 Getty Vocabularies intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture, and other material culture.

Prefix

getty.tgn

Alternative Prefixes

tgn

Keywords

ancient cultures architecture art history culture fine arts geographic location geography history human geography

License

ODC-By-1.0

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

1023371   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names should match this regular expression:
^getty\.tgn:\d+$

Example CURIE

getty.tgn:1023371

References

Other https://obo-communitygroup.slack.com/archives/C023P0Z304T/p1638380238036200

Contributors

• submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

Digital Humanities

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 1023371 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.