Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales
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Welcome to WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales (WP EMEW) !
The purpose of this project is to improve Wikidata's coverage of England and Wales in the 1500s and 1600s. In pursuit of this goal, we will partner with the collaborative Viae Regiae (Q105547906) project as they work to build a Gazetteer of Early Modern England and Wales (Q105548625).
The EMEW gazetteer will identify the places of the period and plot them on a map, with a particular focus on understanding the developing transport links between them.
A charter for the collaboration can be found on the Viae Regiae website
Short URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WP_EMEW
or https://w.wiki/32fZ
Areas of particular interest will include:
- Places that were important, such as /churches, /schools, /monasteries, /manors, /inns, /settlements, /ports, /castles, navigable /rivers, /bridges, ...
- Locations of events - battles, other happenings
- /Place IDs -- identifiers for places in gazetteers, online information sources, and other resources
- /People -- who were the people connected to the places, and what were the relationships between them ?
- Artefacts
- Documents of the time that identify and describe the places, including maps, books, inquisitions, wills, and court records.
- Links to style guides for documents and other sources.
- /Sources subproject focused on manuscript and printed resources including atlases, loose maps, itineraries, diaries, and gazetteers, as well as reference works relating to these items.
- Ontologies, thesauruses, controlled vocabularies
- Administrative subdivisions: /counties, hundreds/wapentakes, cantrefs, traditional areas
- /Housekeeping -- 'meta' issues for the project
- /Map uploads (with SDC and potential for IIIF)
- /Wikisource -- Possibility of adding marked-up texts (eg Leland) there?
Time: by Sun 7 March. Ideally sooner. (#WorldOpenDataDay #InternationalOpenDataDay is 6 March).
- Create sub-projects
- Move content from top-level to sub-projects
- Refine top-level
The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:{{Ping project|Early Modern England and Wales}}
The following subpages belong to the project:
- Viae Regiae launch event video, 10 February 2021, Institute of Historical Research (Q6040373), via YouTube
- Viae Regiae on twitter