Experimental WebService for the TGN (Thesaurus of Geographic Names)

Documentation (TGN Sample Data, Editorial Guidelines, etc) can be downloaded from:
     Getty Vocabularies Download Center

The TGN Sample Data Base was implemented using PostgreSQL (see Schema in IDEF1X-Notation).
Necessary Code was implemented in PHP, SQL, and pgsql. The service is deployed on a
commodity computer, running W2K and IIS. Test data contain place names of the Italian region Tuscany.

At the moment there exists only one method (GetSubTree) which is described in the WSDL-Specification.

Test Cases (using a simple Test-Client) can be taken from below; allow approx. 4 seconds for response:
(The Test Client provides a simple Interface for generating the SOAP-Request and delivers a conversion
of the SOAP-Response, both into a List and a Treeview Form; TreeView contains Preferred Terms only.)

• Test-TGN-001: Regions, Provinces, and Towns in Italy
• Test-TGN-002: Rivers in the Toscana Region
• Test-TGN-003: Mountains in the Toscana Region
• Test-TGN-004: All PlaceTypes of Livorno Province (Result contains preferred Terms only)
• Test-TGN-004a: All PlaceTypes of Livorno Province (Result contains all Term variants)
• Test-TGN-005: Ports in Italy
• Test-TGN-006: All Place Names with leading character 'F' (Result List includes Variants)
• Test-TGN-006a: All Place Names with leading character 'F' (Preferrred Terms only)
• Test-TGN-007: Terms of Place Type 'port' (Including Variants)
• Test-TGN-007a: Terms of Place Type 'port' (Preferred Terms only)
• Test-TGN-008: Terms containing the substring 'ali' (Search is directed to Terms and Variants)
• Test-TGN-008a: Terms containing the substring 'ali' (Search is directed to Preferred Terms only)
• Test-TGN-009: Islands in Europe

Note: The generated SOAP-request can be tested using tools like soapui