GeoNames: the places JudaicaLink uses

http://data.judaicalink.org/datasets/geonames

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schema:Place

9,100

Description

rdf:type: void:Dataset
rdf:type: dcat:Dataset
dcterms:description: The places of the GeoNames gazetteer that JudaicaLink uses: every GeoNames feature that one of our datasets links. GeoNames is a geographical database compiled from many sources (national gazetteers, mapping agencies, Wikipedia) and edited by volunteers. Its coverage is wide, bu…
The places of the GeoNames gazetteer that JudaicaLink uses: every GeoNames feature that one of our datasets links. GeoNames is a geographical database compiled from many sources (national gazetteers, mapping agencies, Wikipedia) and edited by volunteers. Its coverage is wide, but names, coordinates and the kind of a feature are of varying precision; several features can stand for one place (a city and its administrative unit, a historic and a current settlement). GeoNames does not publish which identifiers it has merged or deleted. The dataset is made from the GeoNames dump (CC BY 4.0); the date and files of the dump are in the metadata of each version. Each record `data/geonames/<id>` is `owl:sameAs` the GeoNames feature (`https://sws.geonames.org/<id>/`) and has its name and alternate names (with their languages), coordinates, feature class and code, country, population, first-level administrative division, and the Wikipedia articles and Wikidata item GeoNames gives for it. `geonames-selection.tsv.gz` lists which datasets link each feature.
dcterms:abstract: The places of the GeoNames gazetteer that JudaicaLink uses: every GeoNames feature that one of our datasets links.
dcterms:identifier: geonames
dcterms:license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dcterms:source: https://www.geonames.org/
dcterms:title: GeoNames: the places JudaicaLink uses
dcterms:type: datasets/vocabulary/method/converted
dcterms:type: datasets/vocabulary/kind/authority
void:exampleResource: 281184
void:uriSpace: http://data.judaicalink.org/data/geonames/
dcat:hasVersion: datasets/geonames/2026-10-19
dcat:landingPage: https://judaicalink.org/
http://creativecommons.org/ns#attributionName: GeoNames (https://www.geonames.org)
dcterms:rights: https://web.archive.org/web/20261006030315/https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt

`datasets/geonames/2026-10-19`

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dcterms:description: Made in the cascade of the authority datasets of 2026-10-19 (decisions 0029, 0032).
current subjects: 9100
dcterms:creator: datasets/agents/persons/1
dcterms:issued: 2026-10-19
void:classes: 1
void:distinctSubjects: 9100
void:properties: 11
void:triples: 257245
void:vocabulary: rdf:
void:vocabulary: owl:
void:vocabulary: skos:
void:vocabulary: foaf:
void:vocabulary: schema:
void:vocabulary: geo:
void:vocabulary: https://www.geonames.org/ontology#
dcat:distribution: dumps/geonames/2026-10-19/geonames.ttl.gz
dcat:distribution: dumps/geonames/2026-10-19/geonames-meta.ttl.gz
dcat:distribution: dumps/geonames/2026-10-19/geonames-selection.tsv.gz
dcat:isVersionOf: datasets/geonames
dcat:version: 2026-10-19
prov:wasGeneratedBy: datasets/geonames/2026-10-19/generation

`datasets/geonames/2026-10-19/generation`

rdf:type: prov:Activity
rdfs:comment: 9,100 records of 9,120 linked ids (20 not in the dump); by dataset: wikidata 8,135, gnd 4,067, geo-enriched 3,054, geo-coordinates 2,600, cm-entities 1,504, records-normalized 513, 2014links 101, epidat 5, lc 1; 8,973 Wikipedia articles, 2,682 Wikidata items.
rdfs:comment: Input not published (inputs:cascade/2026-10-19, 1 file, 84,936 bytes; named by checksum in the run record): The cascade of the authority datasets, 2026-10-19. <slug>-selection.tsv.gz: the selection of each authority dataset (gnd, lc, geonames, viaf, wikidata, dbpedia; source, ide…
Input not published (inputs:cascade/2026-10-19, 1 file, 84,936 bytes; named by checksum in the run record): The cascade of the authority datasets, 2026-10-19. <slug>-selection.tsv.gz: the selection of each authority dataset (gnd, lc, geonames, viaf, wikidata, dbpedia; source, identifier, current identifier, reason, detail); entities.jsonl.gz, find-<P>.tsv: the Wikidata answers for the selected items; titles-<lang>.jsonl: the Wikipedia answers for the selected titles; cascade.json: rounds and sizes. Origin: jl cascade (src/jl/cascade.py) on the stable versions of 2026-10-19, with the lookups of generators/<slug>/lookup.py: the indexes of the GND, LC, VIAF and GeoNames dumps (the inputs of those generators) and the Wikidata and Wikipedia APIs (answers cached)
rdfs:comment: Input not published (inputs:geonames/dump-2026-10-15, 3 files, 627,027,746 bytes; named by checksum in the run record): GeoNames: the full dump (allCountries), alternate names, admin1 codes and country info (2026-10-15). The GeoNames data dump as offered on 2026-10-15 (files date…
Input not published (inputs:geonames/dump-2026-10-15, 3 files, 627,027,746 bytes; named by checksum in the run record): GeoNames: the full dump (allCountries), alternate names, admin1 codes and country info (2026-10-15). The GeoNames data dump as offered on 2026-10-15 (files dated 2026-10-15 by the server): allCountries.zip (all features, one line per GeoNames record: id, name, ASCII name, alternate names, coordinates, feature class and code, country, admin codes, population, ...), alternateNamesV2.zip (the alternate names with their language, preferred/short/colloquial/historic flags), admin1CodesASCII.txt (names of the first-level administrative divisions), countryInfo.txt (countries), readme.txt (the format). Licence CC BY 4.0 (readme.txt). Used to find GeoNames ids for place names offline and deterministically. Origin: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
rdfs:seeAlso: https://github.com/judaicalink/judaicalink-data/blob/main/generators/geonames/runs/2026-10-19.json
prov:endedAtTime: 2026-10-19T00:04:36Z
prov:startedAtTime: 2026-10-19T00:04:23Z
prov:used: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
prov:used: https://github.com/judaicalink/judaicalink-data/blob/a925699a8fcec1c453a3634722f5c3625f385e78/generators/geonames/generate.py
prov:wasAssociatedWith: datasets/agents/persons/1
prov:wasAssociatedWith: datasets/agents/software/judaicalink-data

`datasets/geonames/2026-10-19/metadata`

rdf:type: prov:Activity
rdfs:comment: Rendered by the framework from the catalogue entry, the run record of the version and statistics measured on its files (decision 0018).
prov:endedAtTime: 2026-10-19T04:05:58Z
prov:used: https://github.com/judaicalink/judaicalink-data/tree/d60416c59208c599ad38267bd9db8e02e6559950
prov:wasAssociatedWith: datasets/agents/software/judaicalink-data

`dumps/geonames/2026-10-19/geonames-meta.ttl.gz`

rdf:type: dcat:Distribution
dcterms:description: Metadata of this version (this file).
prov:wasGeneratedBy: datasets/geonames/2026-10-19/metadata
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`dumps/geonames/2026-10-19/geonames-selection.tsv.gz`

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`dumps/geonames/2026-10-19/geonames.ttl.gz`

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