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==Available Datasets==
 
==Available Datasets==
 
CHGIS Version 6 Datasets include the following layers.
 
CHGIS Version 6 Datasets include the following layers.
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'''Time Series'''  
 
'''Time Series'''  
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/Q9VOF5 V6 Time Series County Points]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/Q9VOF5 V6 Time Series County Points]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WW1PD6 V6 Time Series Prefecture Points]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WW1PD6 V6 Time Series Prefecture Points]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/I0Q7SM V6 Time Series Prefecture Polygons]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/I0Q7SM V6 Time Series Prefecture Polygons]
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All are available in GBK and UTF8 encoding.
 
All are available in GBK and UTF8 encoding.
  
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[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ST5KKM 1820 Layers UTF8 Encoding]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ST5KKM 1820 Layers UTF8 Encoding]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/2K4FHX 1820 Layers GBK Encoding]
 
[https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/2K4FHX 1820 Layers GBK Encoding]
The 1820 Time Slice includes: county, prefectural and provincial level points (administrative seats), township points, prefectural level and provincial level polygons, rivers and lakes.  
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The 1820 Time Slice includes: county, prefectural and provincial level points (administrative seats), township points, prefectural level and provincial level polygons, rivers and lakes.
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==See also==
 
==See also==
 
*[[China Biographical Database]] (CBDB)
 
*[[China Biographical Database]] (CBDB)

Revision as of 22:01, 25 April 2018

The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) is a historical GIS project that has created spatial datasets of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of China's history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE. CHGIS tracks changes in place names, administrative status, and geography. It is a joint project of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the Center for Historical Geography at Fudan University. General Editors: Professors Peter K. Bol of Harvard.[1] and Ge Jianxiong of Fudan University. Executive editors: Merrick Lex Berman of Harvard University and Man Zhimin of Fudan Univeristy. [2]. For complete information see the CHGIS homepage.

Purpose and Scope

The main objective of the CHGIS project is to create a flexible tool, in the form of a documented database of places and administrative units, which can be used to investigate any sort of geographically specific data related to China's imperial history. The unique ID numbers for each of the CHGIS temporal instance records can be used as geocodes in relational databases, or to mark up texts, enabling users to import their own datasets into the CHGIS platform. Users will be able to associate their own data with CHGIS records, and then use the CHGIS database to sort, query, and display their data for different historical periods and at different levels of aggregation.

The CHGIS project has been working backwards from county basemaps for the year 1911, to create a continuous time series of records that track changes in placename, administrative status, and geographic locations. It should be noted that the data for the year 1911 CE is time slice valid for a single year, and the content overlaps the time series data.

There have been six versions of CHGIS data released between (2002 - 2016), providing base coverage of the so-called core provinces of Dynastic China: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Ningxia, Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

The following provinces lie outside the scope of the current project for Time Series data: Neimeng, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Xizang. However they do exist in the two Time Slice datasets for 1820 and 1911.

Available Datasets

CHGIS Version 6 Datasets include the following layers.

Time Series V6 Time Series County Points V6 Time Series Prefecture Points V6 Time Series Prefecture Polygons

All are available in GBK and UTF8 encoding.

Time Slice 1820 1820 Layers UTF8 Encoding 1820 Layers GBK Encoding The 1820 Time Slice includes: county, prefectural and provincial level points (administrative seats), township points, prefectural level and provincial level polygons, rivers and lakes.

See also

References

  1. "PETER K. BOL". Harvard University. Retrieved 17 November 2017. 
  2. Peter Bol; Jianxiong Ge (2005). "China Historical GIS". Historical Geography. 

External links