For work on gazetteers I would suggest to bring in Humphrey Southall.

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/humphrey-southall

He has been working on them for decades and argued they organise information in 
a way which is useful also in a digital world.

All the best,

Øyvind 

> Am 09.09.2021 um 19:35 schrieb Christian-Emil Smith Ore via Crm-sig 
> <crm-sig@ics.forth.gr>:
> 
> Still the information in a gazetteers and in old land (mediaeval, early 
> modern) registries can be organized compliant with CRM. I assume that is what 
> is meant. This, in my opinion, an interesting task and could help a lot.
> Best,
> Christian-Emil
> 
> 
> From: Crm-sig <crm-sig-boun...@ics.forth.gr> on behalf of Martin Doerr via 
> Crm-sig <crm-sig@ics.forth.gr>
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> To: crm-sig@ics.forth.gr
> Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] Linked Places mapping
>  
> Dear Francesco, Richard,
> 
> I am a bit confused. Even though people wrongly call a gazetteer a "place 
> name ontology", it has nothing to do with ontology, because it is a 
> collection of particulars. A place is not a class. 
> 
> I understand that the mapping exercise is a data transformation from Pelagios 
> schema, rather than the data about places, to CRM (geo). That should be a 
> question of X3ML.
> 
> Is or includes ontome.net a schema mapping tool with data tansformation 
> instructions? 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Martin
> 
> On 9/9/2021 5:41 PM, Francesco Beretta via Crm-sig wrote:
>> Dear Richard,
>> Notwithstanding a more authoritative response, we have developed the 
>> ontome.net application precisely for coping with this kind of issues – and 
>> providing in the end a RDF (XML-OWL) export of the mapping.
>> So, if you're interested, we can exchange on this.
>> Best wishes
>> Francesco
>> Le 09.09.21 à 12:46, Richard Light via Crm-sig a écrit :
>>> Hi,
>>> The Linked Pasts gazetteer group (part of Pelagios) yesterday expressed an 
>>> interest in mapping their Linked Places ontology to the CIDOC CRM. What is 
>>> the current state of the art for doing this sort of mapping?  The last time 
>>> I was involved in such an exercise, the result ended up in a 
>>> not-very-processible spreadsheet, but I have a feeling we can do better 
>>> than that these days.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Richard
>>> -- 
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