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OpenGulf: Creating Open Historical Data about the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf
Stanford (California),
USAOrganisation: Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), David Rumsey Map Center, History Department, Stanford University LibrariesThe OpenGulf research collective, which examines and repurposes colonial texts to explore the histories of understudied regions, will host a symposium at the David Rumsey Map Center on Friday, May 23. The symposium marks the publication of a comprehensive dataset of geocoded place names derived from a seminal twentieth-century British colonial Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, and Oman. More information and registration here.Time schedule: 18.00-21.00 Brussels time
