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Autonomous Peoples, Europe, Year 600
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Originator
- Nussli, Christos
- Originator
- Nussli, Marc-Antoine
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Title
- Autonomous Peoples, Europe, Year 600
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Collection Title
- Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Online Linkage
- https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-euratlas-autonomous-ppl-600
- Abstract
- This shapefile represents autonomous peoples of Europe for the year 600. Autonomous peoples are generally nomadic, semi-nomadic or not well-known populations without evident central authority. This layer is part of the Euratlas Georeferenced Vector Data collection that is composed of 21 maps, one for each century from year 1 to year 2000. These maps depict the detailed political situation of Europe at the first day of each centennial year C.E. from year 1 to 2000. Each map is composed of two kinds of layers: physical features layers, such as seas and rivers, and political features layers, such as states and cities. Some layers also cover adjacent portions of North Africa and the Middle East.
- Purpose
- This layer is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 0600
- Bounding Box
- West
- -7.062106
- East
- 50.701229
- North
- 55.599855
- South
- 23.191945
- Theme Keyword
- Boundaries
- Nomads
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- ISO Topic Category
- boundaries
- Place Keyword
- Europe
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- LCSH
- Temporal Keyword
- Access Restrictions
- Access is granted to Harvard University Affiliates only. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students.
- Use Restrictions
- SITE LICENSE AGREEMENT for Euratlas, SWITZERLAND Georeferenced Historical Vector Data This is a legal Agreement between -Christos Nussli ("Licensor") holder of the trademark Euratlas, author of Euratlas Periodis, periodical historical atlas of Europe, and owner of the proprietary rights in this work and in the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data, that is a part of Euratlas Periodis A. The Licensee acknowledges that the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data are original works protected by intellectual property legislation. The Licensee will not acquire any ownership in the Data. Rather, he has a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to install and to use the digital data, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The Licensee owns the physical media on which the Data are recorded, but the Licensor retains all ownership interests in the Data. B. The licensee may install and use the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data on the Institution's network or on the computers within the Institution while acknowledging the data source from Euratlas. The Licensee may give Authorized Users only access to the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data. Authorized Users are individuals at the Institution who are faculty, staff, students or on-site-users of the Institution?s library and campus computer network. The Licensee agree to inform all Authorized Users about the Terms and Conditions of the Utilisation License below. The Authorized Users may use the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data for teaching and research purposes only. At no time is commercial use authorized. C. The Licensee undertakes himself to respect and to require the respect from the Authorized Users of the Utilisation License below. UTILISATION LICENSE A. Rights Conferred by the License 1. The Licensee and the Authorized Users are authorised to use the vectorial data, alone or combined with other data, for the illustration of books, booklets and publications on paper and to disseminate them on these media. They are authorised to use the vectorial data for the creation of geographical maps or other graphic media as raster images (bitmap), capable of being disseminated on CD-ROMs. They may also offer these documents, for purely illustrative purposes, on an Internet site. B. Limitations on the Granted Rights 2. Regardless of the medium (non-digital or digital as raster images) only representations as indicated under clause 1 above, may be disseminated and in no case the vectorial data themselves. Moreover, these representations should not constitute the essence of the contents of the product (derived work) that will be disseminated, or of the contents of the Internet site on which they will be offered. Lastly, any modifications and additions made should not contain any obviously illegal, humanly discriminatory or scientifically erroneous elements. All the rights conferred under clause 1 above are subject to the limitations appearing under clauses 3 and 4 below and to the respect of the obligatory mention indicated under clause 5 below. 3. The Licensee and the Authorized Users may not entrust the vectorial data to an outsider. In no case may the rights conferred on the Licensee be yielded to an outsider. The Licensee and the Authorized Users shall not authorize or allow any third party to duplicate or reproduce the Data, in whole or in part, in any form or format whatsoever without the prior written consent of the Licensor, nor sell, loan, lease, distribute, transfer or sublicense the Data or otherwise assign any rights under this Agreement to any third party without the prior written consent of the Licensor. 4. The Licensee and the Authorized Users may not disseminate a work, on any medium whatsoever, that could be an entire or substantial reconstitution of the Euratlas maps (Euratlas Periodis) from the vectorial data, e.g. for the publication of an historic atlas of Europe. To be authorised, any work derived from the vectorial data must deal with a subject different from that of the Euratlas Periodis and any additions or modifications made must exceed 50% of the derived work both in the general presentation and in its content. Moreover, the title of the derived work should not, whether alone or in combination, contain the expression "Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe" nor the names Euratlas and Periodis. D. Obligatory Mention 5. (a) Any graphical representation established from the Data as envisaged in clause 1, whatever the medium, must comprise the following mention: "? Copyright 2008, Christos Nussli, Euratlas ? www.euratlas.com, reproduction prohibited, license of (date of this agreement)" (b) When the modifications or additions made to the original work are, in the general presentation or its components, less than 70% of the derived work, the documentation accompanying the derived work will have to mention the original work and the Licensor?s rights, for example, in the following form: "map drawn with the Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data ? Copyright 2008, Christos Nussli, Euratlas ? www.euratlas.com, reproduction prohibited, license of (date of this agreement)" E. Guarantees and Responsibilities 6. The Licensor has devoted its best efforts to collecting and preparing the vectorial data but it does not provide any guarantee or assurance, either express or tacit, deriving from the law or other sources, as to the exactness, utility, innovation, validity, extent, precision or adequacy of the data for a particular purpose. The Licensor will not be liable in any event for any loss of profits, breaking-off of an agreement, or any loss arising as a result of the inaccuracy or incompleteness in the Data. 7. The Licensor will not be liable to the Licensee in any respect for any claims, loss or injury alleged to have relsult from use or detention of the Data or of derived work. F. Application and Possible Litigation 8. This agreement is effective as of the date and time the Institution download the Georeferenced Historical Vector Data and shall apply throughout the duration of the legal copyright protection and without any territorial limitation. This Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws in force in Switzerland. The court having jurisdiction is at Yverdon-les-Bains, Vaud.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Delivery Point
- Milieu 30
- City
- Yverdon-les-Bains
- Postal Code
- 1400
- Country
- Switzerland
- Contact Telephone
- 0041 24 426 13 50
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- webmaster@euratlas.net
- Credit
- See Use Constraints.
- Native Data Set Environment
- ArcGIS 9.3
- Collection
- Originator
- EurAtlas-Nussli
- Originator
- Nussli, Christos
- Originator
- Nussli, Marc-Antoine
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Title
- Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Cross-Reference
- Originator
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Originator
- Nussli, Christos
- Originator
- Nussli, Marc-Antoine
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Title
- Bibliography for Georeferenced Historical Vector Data 600
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- Text
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Online Linkage
- http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:011477185_4726941
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- Unknown
- Logical Consistency Report
- Unknown
- Completeness Report
- Unknown
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- Unknown
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- EurAtlas-Nussli
- Originator
- Nussli, Christos
- Originator
- Nussli, Marc-Antoine
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Title
- Euratlas Georeferenced Historical Vector Data
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Euratlas-Nussli
- Source Scale Denominator
- Unknown
- Type of Source Media
- online
- Source Temporal Extent
- Time Period Information
- Single Date/Time
- Calendar Date
- 2010
- Source Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Contribution
- Source dataset
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 17
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Planar
- Map Projection
- Map Projection Name
- Mercator
- Mercator
- Standard Parallel
- 0.000000
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- 0.000000
- False Easting
- 0.000000
- False Northing
- 0.000000
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- coordinate pair
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 0.000100
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.000100
- Planar Distance Units
- meters
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- EurAtlas_autonomous_ppl_600
- Entity Type Definition
- Europe Autonomous Peoples year 600
- Entity Type Definition Source
- Euratlas
- Attributes
- OBJECTID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- YEAR
- Year the data represents
- Definition Source
- None
- ENTITY_ID
- ID of the people represented by this territory
- Definition Source
- Euratlas
- SHORT_NAME
- Short name of territory, generally a simple proper noun (Text)
- Definition Source
- Euratlas
- LONG_NAME
- Official, complete name of the territory (Text)
- Definition Source
- Euratlas
- VARIANTS
- Other usual or modern name(s) of the territory (separated by semicolon) (Text)
- Definition Source
- Euratlas
- SHAPE
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.AREA
- Area of feature in square coverage units
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- SHAPE.LEN
- Length of arc in coverage units
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Entity and Attribute Overview
- Autonomous peoples without well-defined territory. Populations also have an entity ID to uniquely identify the population. Names are encoded in UTF8. Data model Euratlas georeferenced vector data is also a database containing much non-geographical information about political relationships between the various kinds of territories. Thus, it is important to know how this database is structured in order to be able to use the whole information [all the layers] contained in it. States and administrative divisions The states and administrative divisions form a hierarchy of territories which is completely defined from the 2nd-level administrative divisions. Thus, the territory of a sovereign state is defined as the union of all its owned 2nd level divisions. Similarly, a 1st level division is the union of all its composing 2nd level divisions. However, 1st level divisions are optional and thus, not all 2nd level divisions are part of a 1st level divisions. Thus, each 2nd level division has a reference on its owner sovereign state and on its potential parent 1st level division. Note also that 1st level divisions also have a reference on their owner state and this owner is the same than the one of their composing 2nd level divisions except in few cases with dependent states (explained below) Dependent states Each 2nd level division may optionally have a reference on another state called its holder state. This happens in the case of dependent state (see political description). In such case, a 2nd level division has both a sovereign state (its owner) and a dependent state (its holder). Thus, this holder reference is used to generate the sovereign and dependent states layer. This layer has been built by grouping 2nd level divisions having the same owner state and the same holder state (if any). Thus, resulting features may be associated to two states, an owner (or sovereign) state and possibly, a holder (dependent) state. Also, on this layer, a state may appear as several features. For example, if a state owns a part without holder and another part with a holder, then it will appear as 2 features in this layer. Also, it is possible for a state to have both a sovereign (owned) part and a dependent (holded) part. In very few cases, it happens that a 2nd level division and its parent 1st level division are not owned by the same state. In such cases, the owner of the 1st level division is actually the holder of the 2nd level division. For this reason, 2nd level divisions have another optional reference to those so-called holder 1st level division. Note however that only one 1st level parent will be defined for a 2nd level division, either for its owner state, or for its holder state. Supranational entities Supranational entities are also defined in a similar way from the 2nd level divisions, which also contains an optional reference to a supranational entity. Although it would seem more natural to have supranational entities defined as unions of states, it is not so because it may happen, in the case of the Holy Roman Empire, that only parts of states belong to a supranational entity. Independent layers Autonomous peoples are not related to this hierarchy. They form an independent layer. Uncertain borders are a set of polygons covering some borders with a high level of uncertainty due to lack of information. However, they also are an independent layer and thus are not directly linked to any political entity. Moreover, it may happen that an uncertain border polygon covers more than just two political territories. Cities are also independent. They are defined in a year-independent manner by a unique point location. Each city has also name and size information for every century for which the city exists. Political entities IDs States, supranational entities, autonomous peoples and cities are all identified by a unique integer ID (generally owner_id or entity_id). These IDs are unique between political territories. This means that a state cannot have the same ID than an autonomous people or a supranational entity in the same year. Cities form a separated set of IDs which overlaps with those of the political territories. Finally, all these IDs are consistent throughout the years. Thus, a state which is present on several years, like Roman Empire, will have the same ID in every year. The same is also true for cities. Moreover, some states are present as autonomous people in a year and as state, with the same ID, in another year. 1st and 2nd level administrative divisions are defined on a year-dependent manner. Thus, it is not possible to make any correspondence between administrative divisions of one year with the ones of another year.
- Entity and Attribute Detail Citation
- Euratlas. (2010). Georeferenced Vector Data Description. Retrieved November 18, 2010, from http://shop.euratlas.com/maps_gis/data_description.pdf
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- Shapefile
- Distributor
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Online Access
- http://hgl.harvard.edu/
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20101203
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Harvard Geospatial Library
- Contact Position
- Geospatial Resources Cataloger
- Contact Address
- Address
- Harvard University Library
- Address
- Office For Information Systems
- Address
- 90 Mount Auburn Street
- City
- Cambridge
- State or Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- 617-495-2417
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 617-496-0440
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- hgl_ref@hulmail.harvard.edu
- Hours of Service
- Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST-USA
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
