Aside from the directly involved institutions, the project wouldn't be possible without the cooperation of others, who contribute data, suggestions, and general support in the activities. We are also open to contributing to direct collaborations, whether in the educational field, for digital document editions, or specialized research. Get in touch with us to consider options!

We are proud to announce a new intensive cooperation with various institutions and projects. The HGIS database of the Indies is being inserted into the World Historical Gazetteer, a project guided by Karl Grossner that will integrate and align different historical gazetteers to relate them, as well as collections and documents that reference them.

In addition, Rainer Simon, from Pelagios Commons, has integrated our database into Recogito, a Pelagios tool for annotating texts in a collaborative environment.

And as if this weren't enough, HGIS de las Indias has been integrated into a combined effort of a group, unofficially coordinated by Gimena del Río Riande from the University of Buenos Aires - which has received a grant from Pelagios called "LatAm Gazetteer" to build a gazetteer from Alcedo's historical geographical dictionary. With a preliminary edition of Alcedo and a large database of places, our project joined the effort with a good dowry. Reciprocally, we greatly benefit from the possibilities offered by the continued annotation of the dictionary and the improvement of the text. Additionally, we are working on relating the individual entries of Alcedo to our database.

We have a cooperation of mutual advise and data exchange with the Digging Early Colonial History project, led by Patricia Murrieta-Flores at the University of Lancaster.

By participating in the Hispanic America research network in modern times, particularly the "GIS in history" subnetwork, we hope to offer opportunities to benefit from the work of other specialist colleagues and at the same time contribute to improving the compatibility of historical data and positioning HGIS de las Indias as a platform and infrastructure database.

There is a project of similar scale for Portuguese America, guided by Dr. Tiago Gil from the University of Brasilia, with whom we are currently exchanging data for use in the respective applications.

The vast majority (over 4,000) of the locations of New Spanish and Chiapas places in the gazetteer are courtesy of Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, and come from the Illustrated Atlas of Indian Towns, New Spain, 1800.