WHG::Datasets

These datasets flagged as public in WHG include a growing set of historical contributions, as well as several in a non-historical "core." They can be browsed on their linked pages, explored in context of the entire repository on the Search page, and accessed programmatically with our Index and Database APIs.

All such public data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, requirements of which appear alongside download links on all Dataset and Collection pages H = Historical; C = Core (non-historical)

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title	rows	description	modified	contributor	type
African Ports, 1887	305	305 settlements and ports on the West African coast	2022-05-15	whgadmin	H
An Historical Atlas of Central Asia	759	This dataset comprises 759 place records, digitized in 2018 from 15 of the 48 maps in this scholarly atlas. The maps' extensive sources, detailed in the Preface and Notes, include "...all reliable gen...moreeral surveys of Central Asian history, and scholarly works on specific historical topics that contain significant historico-geographical information, with or without maps." The data comprises not only settlements, but historical cultural and political regions, spatial extents for which are indeterminate and indicated by dashed boundaries around their labels on the map plates. less	2022-04-29	whgadmin	H
Atlas of Mutual Heritage	1322	The Atlas of Mutual Heritage is a growing database containing information about, and images of, the charter areas of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and WIC (Dutch West India Company).	2022-05-07	rjstapel	H
Curaçao Historical Administrative Areas	29	Spatiotemporal GIS layer of administrative areas (quarters; divisions; districts; urban neighbourhoods) in the island of Curaçao under Dutch, post-WIC control (1792-1954).	2022-04-09	rjstapel	H
Euratlas Cities	3584	3584 cities with temporally scoped names from the Euratlas Periodis Historical Atlas and Gazatteer. Polities will be added as a separate dataset.	2022-04-21	whgadmin	H
HGIS de las Indias (lugares)	13258	The lugares (settlements) in the Historical-Geographic Information System (HGIS) of the Indies (1701-1808), a project of the University of Graz, funded with the support of the Fund for Scientific Inve...morestigations of the Republic of Austria (FWF) between 2015 and 2017. The general purpose of HGIS de las Indias is to create a visualization of the historical geography for the Bourbon Spanish America through time, to create a solid systematics of the administrative-territorial structure as an interface for associated projects, as well as to promote geographic methods and digital tools in Hispano-Americanist historiography. less	2022-04-29	WStangl	H
HGIS de las Indias territorios	892	The administrative territorios in the Historical-Geographic Information System (HGIS) of the Indies (1701-1808), a project of the University of Graz, funded with the support of the Fund for Scientific...more Investigations of the Republic of Austria (FWF) between 2015 and 2017. The general purpose of HGIS de las Indias is to create a visualization of the historical geography for the Bourbon Spanish America through time, to create a solid systematics of the administrative-territorial structure as an interface for associated projects, as well as to promote geographic methods and digital tools in Hispano-Americanist historiography. less	2022-04-29	WStangl	H
KIT gazetteer Dutch Antilles	1227	Gazetteer developed by the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute) in the Netherlands, in order to allow users to produce geographical queries on the KITs Dutch Colonial Maps Co...morellection. less	2022-04-09	rjstapel	H
KIT gazetteer Surinam	2146	Gazetteer developed by the Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute) in the Netherlands, in order to allow users to produce geographical queries on the KITs Dutch Colonial Maps Co...morellection. This collection is currently hosted by the Leiden University Library (https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/collection/kitmaps). less	2022-05-16	rjstapel	H
List of Ryssian towns, late 14c	282	So called “List of Russian Towns, Distant and Hither" survived in 26 copies, and the oldest copy was preserved in the Commission Scroll of the Novgorod First Chronicle	2022-04-29	npkfrolov	H
Old World Trade	4117	Place records drawn from "...geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 4,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE." Trade routes to be added in another...more dataset. less	2022-04-29	whgadmin	H
Pleiades (partial)	20365	Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places. It publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reus...moreing that information under open license. This is a subset of Pleiades data, including settlements, monuments, and physical geographic features less	2020-07-23	whgadmin	H
Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order	181	List of towns and commanderies in Livonia and Prussia (formerly) associated with the Teutonic Order (Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order, chaps 717-726). Source for the transcript: R.J. Stapel, ...more'The late Fifteenth-Century Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order : Manuscripts, Sources, and Authorship' (Doctoral thesis Leiden University 2017), http://hdl.handle.net/1887/45782. Original source for the transcription: Vienna, Deutschordenszentralarchiv, Hs. 392 (Around Utrecht, ca. 1480-ca. 1491, some later additions ca. 1496). less	2022-04-09	rjstapel	H
D-PLACE	1428	D-PLACE (the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment) contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’. A ‘society’ in D-PLACE rep...moreresents a group of people in a particular locality, who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950). less	2022-05-09	whgadmin	C
DK Atlas of World History	10643	Data culled from the index and maps of DK Atlas of World History. Jeremy Black, Ed.. DK Publishing (2005)	2022-05-04	whgadmin	C

These collections of datasets are flagged as "public" in WHG. Most are downloadable from their linked page. Public data contained therein are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

id	title	created	creator
1	HGIS de las Indias	June 18, 2021, 11:14 p.m.	whgadmin
2	Dutch Global History	June 18, 2021, 11:18 p.m.	rjstapel
21	Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of the Aztec Empire	April 26, 2022, 11:27 p.m.	whgadmin