Following progress on the GAZ project

[Chris Mungall]

GAZ is an open-source gazetteer that is part of the OBO family of resources:

http://obofoundry.org/ontology/gaz

GAZ has about 600k entries representing different geographic entities, from the Mariannas Trench to Minnesota.

Efforts on GAZ have restarted after a period of hiatus. Lynn Schriml has been assigned contact for GAZ. A group of us are attempting to work through various issues on the tracker, including figuring out a better way to manage GAZ in GitHub, linking GAZ to ENVO, and integrating GAZ with Wikidata (and from there, other resources like Geonames).

You can follow the tracker here:

https://github.com/EnvironmentOntology/gaz/issues

Like any OBO ontology, anyone is welcome to post issues or follow the tracker.

We also have a mailing list, where amongst other things you will find announcements of regular meetings:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/obo-gazetteer

Anyone can sign up, but as with any google group, include a brief message when you sign up, especially if you are using a non-academic email address, so it doesn't look like spam.

[Schriml, Lynn]

One revision:

The GAZ, geographic location ontology, co-developed by Michael Ashburner (PI) and Lynn Schriml beginning in 2005/2006.

Lynn Schriml, GAZ lead-editor is the contact for GAZ coordinating community efforts as we kickoff a community curation model for GAZ development.

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