1.1.1. Draft v4 User Guide

Draft: for review during beta testing

This is a draft of the user guide for WHG v4.0, planned for early 2027. It describes features that are still in beta, and it will change. It does not replace Guides & Tutorials, which document the WHG site as it is today.

Beta testers: please check it against what you see, and report anything wrong, unclear or missing through the beta snag list (see the Beta Testing Plan).

This guide covers WHG v4 from a user’s point of view: exploring places, matching your own data, building collections with colleagues, improving published records, and getting data in and out.

• 1.1.1.1. Getting Started
  • 1.1.1.1.1. Do I need an account?
  • 1.1.1.1.2. One place, many sources
  • 1.1.1.1.3. Where next
• 1.1.1.2. Atlas: Exploring Places
  • 1.1.1.2.1. The problem Atlas solves
  • 1.1.1.2.2. What Atlas does
  • 1.1.1.2.3. How Atlas decides two records are the same place
  • 1.1.1.2.4. You are in control: the grouping dial
  • 1.1.1.2.5. It all happens in your browser
  • 1.1.1.2.6. Confirmed links and your corrections
  • 1.1.1.2.7. Why not just fix the groups once and for all?
  • 1.1.1.2.8. What’s coming
• 1.1.1.3. Map your Data
  • 1.1.1.3.1. What it is
  • 1.1.1.3.2. Why a new tool
  • 1.1.1.3.3. Getting started
  • 1.1.1.3.4. 1 · Import a dataset
  • 1.1.1.3.5. 2 · Confirm column roles
  • 1.1.1.3.6. 3 · Reconcile against WHG
  • 1.1.1.3.7. 4 · Review & confirm matches
  • 1.1.1.3.8. 5 · Map
  • 1.1.1.3.9. 6 · That’s a gazetteer — enrich & export
  • 1.1.1.3.10. 7 · Collaborate & share
  • 1.1.1.3.11. Caveats
• 1.1.1.4. Collaborative Collections
  • 1.1.1.4.1. What it is
  • 1.1.1.4.2. Starting a new document
  • 1.1.1.4.3. Finding your material — “Edit published…”
  • 1.1.1.4.4. The editor at a glance
  • 1.1.1.4.5. Building a Place Collection
  • 1.1.1.4.6. Building an Itinerary
  • 1.1.1.4.7. Building a Gazetteer Group
  • 1.1.1.4.8. Editing something already published
  • 1.1.1.4.9. Collaborating
  • 1.1.1.4.10. A note on names
  • 1.1.1.4.11. How this relates to the older builders
• 1.1.1.5. Suggesting Corrections
  • 1.1.1.5.1. Who can suggest, and who decides
  • 1.1.1.5.2. Making a suggestion
  • 1.1.1.5.3. What happens next
• 1.1.1.6. Sounds-alike Search
  • 1.1.1.6.1. What it does
  • 1.1.1.6.2. How it works, in brief
  • 1.1.1.6.3. Its limits
  • 1.1.1.6.4. Help improve it
• 1.1.1.7. Identifiers and Citation
  • 1.1.1.7.1. Every place record has a persistent identifier
  • 1.1.1.7.2. One address, two answers
  • 1.1.1.7.3. Citing WHG
• 1.1.1.8. Data Formats In and Out
  • 1.1.1.8.1. Spreadsheets and lists
  • 1.1.1.8.2. Linked Places Format (LPF)
  • 1.1.1.8.3. PLATO
  • 1.1.1.8.4. Linked Data
  • 1.1.1.8.5. Which should I use?