<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Historical GIS for geographic regions in Morse's The American Gazetteer (1797)</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/10622/DRXWLN</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>Stapel, Rombert</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>IISH Data Collection</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2020-01-31</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2020-12-22T12:59:35Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>Historical GIS polygons (convex hulls) for the areas and administrative units mentioned in &lt;em>The American Gazetteer&lt;/em> by Jedidiah Morse (Boston 1797). The dataset was specifically created for use with the text, but draws on resources of the &lt;a href="https://nhgis.org" target="_blank">NHGIS&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/hgis-indias" target="_blank">HGIS de las Indias&lt;/a>.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Arts and Humanities</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Historical GIS</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>North America</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>South America</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>Latin America</dcterms:subject><dcterms:subject>West Indies</dcterms:subject><dcterms:contributor>Stapel, Rombert</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2020-01-31</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:license>CC0</dcterms:license><dcterms:rights>CC0 Waiver</dcterms:rights></metadata>