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Table 2. Example on the API of Chinese historical geography data
An example of API (API实例) Function description (功能说明)
Get a place name’s different names in different time period,
http://localhost:8080/webapi/data/安昌县?key=YourAPIKey and also the district it belongs to. (已知地名，找到地名
在不同时间范围中的不同地点及其他相关地名，包括
政区归属地地名和在某个历史时间的曾用名。)
Results (返回结果)
Place name (地名) Anchang County （“安昌县”）
Place no.1 (地点1#) Time：526-589 （时间：526-589）
Geo data：115.22,29.83 （坐标：115.22,29.83）
District the place belongs to (政 Time：526-589 （时间：526-589）
区归属) The place name of the district：South Xincai County （归属地名称：“南新蔡郡”）
Time：911-948 （时间：911-948）
Place no.2 (地点2#)
Geo data：119.52,25.96 （坐标：119.52,25.96）
District the place belongs to (政 Time：911-948 （时间：911-948）
区归属) The place name of the district：Fuzhou （归属地名称：“福州”）
Time：911-948 （时间：911-948）
Other names (其他名称)
Other name：Changle County （其他名称：“长乐县”）

Table 3. Example on the API of Chinese historical chronology data
An example of API （API实例） Function description （功能说明）
http://localhost:8080/webapi/data/明?key=YourAPIKey Get the begin and end year of Ming (明) dynasty （返回明朝
的公元起止年）
Get the begin and end year of the chronology Hongwu in
http://localhost:8080/webapi/data/明洪武?key=YourAPIKey
Ming dynasty (明洪武). （返回年号明洪武的公元起止年）
http://localhost:8080/webapi/data/ Get the A.D. year of the second year of Hongwu in Ming
明洪武2年?key=YourAPIKey dynasty (明洪武2年). （返回明洪武2年的公元年）
http://localhost:8080/webapi/data/1369?key=YourAPIKey Get the chronology of the year 1369 A.D. （返回1369年所在
的年号纪年）

geography and GIS technology into the construction of DH projects has been put forward in
this paper. Moreover, this paper aims to narrow the gap between specialized historical GIS and
humanities and social sciences researchers as well as the general public by utilizing the knowledge
organization and authority control methods which researchers of the library field are good at. In
order to achieve the goals and meet the needs, the author has designed the ontology-based spatial-
temporal model of historical geography data, proposed to publish historical geography data on the
Web by LD technology, and provided the technical implementation scheme of API based on the
research achievements realized by researchers focusing on modern historical geography and DH.
As one of the earliest libraries paying attention to and implementing DH projects, Shanghai
Library has been forging digital humanity services platforms, aiming to become part of the
infrastructure for humanities research (W. Liu, Xie, L. Zhang, & Y.J. Zhang, 2016). With people,
place, time and event as the dimensions, Shanghai Library aims to reorganize its abundant and
various collection of historical documents so as to provide readers and researchers with more
precise services and offer open data services to other small and medium-sized libraries. Chinese