World Sites

Initial data source was UNESCO web site, supplemented by individual work on different countires/regions;A database of cultural heritage sites assembled by volunteers at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney;Database is now availabe online through ECAI and can be updated through a password-controlled web browser interface

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DC_Title World Sites
DC_Creator_CorporateName Archaeological Computing Laboratory
DC_Creator_CorporateName_Address http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au;acl@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au;University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
DC_Subject_Specific UNESCO-WHC;Cultural heritage sites;world heritage
DC_Description Initial data source was UNESCO web site, supplemented by individual work on different countires/regions;A database of cultural heritage sites assembled by volunteers at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney;Database is now availabe online through ECAI and can be updated through a password-controlled web browser interface
DC_Identifier http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/world_sites/index_html?timemap_id=2
DC_Language eng
DC_Type Dataset
DC_Format TimeMap Dataset
DC_Publisher Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney
DC_Publisher_Address acl@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au;University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au
DC_Contributor_CorporateName Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney
DC_Contributor_PersonalName Ian Johnson
DC_Contributor_PersonalName_Address johnson@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au
DC_Coverage_X_min -180
DC_Coverage_X_max 179
DC_Coverage_Y_min -90
DC_Coverage_Y_max 90
DC_Coverage_T_Early -10000
DC_Coverage_T_Late 2050-01-01T00:00:00
DC_Coverage_PeriodName Historic;Prehistoric
DC_Coverage_PlaceName World
DC_Coverage_Notes Coordinates mostly obtained from Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, plus Digital Chart of the World, MapInfo and printed atlases
ECAI_Team Worldwide
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