Historical GIS and Guidebooks: Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions

<p>The following dataset of geolocated travel guide toponyms was compiled in the process of a research project <em>Historical GIS and Guidebooks: A Scalable Reading of Czechoslovak Tourist Attractions </em>(Bechmann Pedersen &amp; Johansson, forthcoming) in which we performed a scalable reading of three travel guides of the former Czechoslovak lands as they were cirka 1959. We used a specialized, open-sourced tool <a href="https://github.com/MatJohaDH/citadel">CITADEL</a> created for this project, which in itself relies on open-sourced data from GeoNames and WikiData.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Our primary sources were the following three travel guides:</p> <ul> <li>Čedok/Nagel, 1959, <em>Czechoslovakia</em></li> <li>Čedok, 1928 <em>Guide to the Czechoslovak Republic</em></li> <li>Baedker, 1905 <em>Austria&ndash;Hungary including Dalmatia and Bosnia</em></li> </ul> <p>All files are tab separated values (.tsv) files with utf-8 encoding.</p> <ol> <li>Three lists of positions with associated toponyms</li> <li>Two lists of clusters</li> </ol> <p>There are three files of the first type:</p> <p>CITADEL_1905Baedeker_toponyms.tsv<br> CITADEL_1928Cedok_toponyms.tsv<br> CITADEL_1959Nagel_toponyms.tsv</p> Columns for toponym files <table><tbody><tr> <th>Column</th> <th>Explanation</th> </tr> </tbody><tbody> <tr> <td>Toponym_first_used</td> <td>First toponym recorded in the database that is linked to the position</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Toponym_added</td> <td>The toponym as spellled in the travel guide</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Source</td> <td>A shorthand used to identify the travel guide</td> </tr> <tr> <td>PositionID</td> <td>The unique identifier of a position, using the GeoNames or WikiData identifiers where applicable.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Longitude</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Latitude</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Year</td> <td>The year of the travel guide</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Weight</td> <td>The weight reflects the number of entries the toponym has in the index. Nagel1928 does not use this convention, and the weight is instead based on the relative page count.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>There are two files of the second type:</p> <p>CITADEL_1905,1928,1959_4km_clusters.tsv<br> CITADEL_1928,1959_4km_clusters.tsv</p> Columns for the cluster files <table><tbody><tr> <th>Column</th> <th>Explanation</th> </tr> </tbody><tbody> <tr> <td>years</td> <td>The years represented in the cluster</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Latitude</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Longitude</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>cnt_points</td> <td> <p>The number of points represented in the cluster</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>cnt_toponyms</td> <td>The number of toponyms represented in the cluster</td> </tr> <tr> <td>cnt_toponyms_&lt;source&gt;</td> <td>The number of toponyms from &lt;source&gt; represented in the cluster</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>