Over the years, GOV has developed into a tool for genealogists, historians and other researchers that allows uniform access to a wide range of location-related data, especially to information that is important for the work of family researchers.:

• Geographical location of the place (coordinates or display on a map)
• Various key numbers (zip code, municipality code, etc.)
• Foreign or historic names
• Historical affiliation (administrative, ecclesiastical, etc.) based on current affiliations

Churches, church districts, towns, counties, regions, etc. can be found in the GOV. Internally, an entry is generally referred to as a GOV object. [from homepage]

Prefix

gov.object

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Historic Geo Information System Object should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

379741   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Historic Geo Information System Object should match this regular expression:
^gov\.object:\d+$

Example CURIE

gov.object:379741

Contact

Missing Contact

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

In Collection (1)

NFDI4Memory Collection

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 1 mapping to an external registry.

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 379741 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Historic Geo Information System Object. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.