Placing names : enriching and integrating gazetteers /
"Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Gazetteers past : placing names from antiquity to the internet / Ruth Mostern and Humphrey Southall
- Gazetteers present : spatial science and volunteered geographical information / Michael F. Goodchild
- Gazetteers global : United Nations geographical name standardization / Helen Kerfoot
- Gazetteers enriched : a conceptual basis for linking gazetteers with other kinds of information / Ryan Shaw
- International standards for gazetteer data structures / Raj Singh
- Place, period, and setting for linked data gazetteers / Karl Grossner, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Carsten Kessler
- The Pleiades gazetteer and the Pelagios Project / Rainer Simon, Leif Isaksen, Elton Barker, and Pau de Soto Cañamares
- Historical gazetteer system integration : CHGIS, Regnum Francorum, and GeoNames / Merrick Lex Berman, Johan Åhlfeldt, and Marc Wick
- Building a gazetteer for early modern London, 1550-1650 / Janelle Jenstad
- Digitally exposing the place names of England and Wales / Paul Ell, Lorna Hughes, and Humphrey Southall
- Standardizing names nationally : the work of the US Board on Geographic Names / Michael R. Fourneir
- The Yeosi Project : finding a place in northeast Asia through history / Youcheol Kim, Byungnam Yoon, Jonghyuk Kim, and Hyunjong Kim
- Mapping religious geographies in Chinese Muslim society / Mark Henderson and Karl Ryavec
- Core-periphery structure of the Nobi region, central Japan, with reference to the work of G. William Skinner / Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi
- Gazetteer GIS and the study of Taiwan local society and its transition / Pi-ling Pai and I-Chun Fan.
