YSO places

YSO places is a multilingual gazetteer.

Description: YSO Places contains administrative and geographical areas, both current and historical, that are selected based on the subject indexing needs of memory organizations. About two thirds of the places are within the current borders of Finland.
User interface: YSO places in Finto
Data downloads: RDF serializations: Turtle and RDF/XML
APIs: Linked Data, Finto REST API
License: CC0

Content type

Controlled vocabulary (gazetteer)

Data status

Primary source

Size

Ca 6 500 concepts

Update frequency

Daily

Relationships

Based on information from YSA, Allärs and Wikidata.

Complements YSO, which does not contain geographical or administrative places.

Linked to Finnish Place Name Registry and Wikidata.

External information

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