Placing Names

Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
Herausgeber: Berman, Merrick Lex; Southall, Humphrey; Mostern, Ruth

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Produktbeschreibung

Merrick Lex Berman is Web Services Manager and GIS Specialist at the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University. Berman has developed (with Bill Hays) a Temporal Gazetteer web service, and was the project manager for the China Historical GIS. Ruth Mostern is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced. Mostern developed (with Elijah Meeks) the Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty and is author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State. Humphrey Southall is Professor of Historical Geography at University of Portsmouth (UK). He developed the Great Britain Historical GIS, and the website Vision of Britain. He has been extensively involved with historical gazetteers in the context of GIS and spatial statistics and is now working on PastPlace, a linked data gazetteer of historical place names.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780253022448
• ISBN-10: 0253022444
• Artikelnr.: 45367435

Autorenporträt

edited by Ruth Mostern, preface by Peter Bol, with contributions by Michael Frank Goodchild, Helen Kerfoot, Ryan Shaw, Raj Singh, Karl Grossner, Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Kessler, Rainer Simon, Leif Isaksen, Elton Barker, Pau de Soto Canamares, Johan Ahlfeldt, Marc Wick, Janelle Jenstad, Paul S. Ell, Lorna Hughes, Michael R. Fournier, Youcheol Kim, Byungnam Yoon, Jonghyuk Kim, Hyunjong Kim, Mark Henderson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface / Peter K. Bol
Introduction / Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, and Merrick Lex Berman
Section 1: What is a Gazetteer
1. Gazetteers Past: Placing Names from Antiquity to the Internet / Ruth
Mostern and Humphrey Southall
2. Gazetteers Present: Spatial Science and Volunteered Geographical
Information / Michael F. Goodchild
3. Gazetteers Global: United Nations Geographical Names Standardization /
Helen Kerfoot
4. Gazetteers Enriched: A Conceptual Basis for Linking Gazetteers with
Other Kinds of Information / Ryan Shaw
Section 2: Using Gazetteers in Combination
5. International Standards for Gazetteer Data Structures / Raj Singh
6. Place, Period, and Setting for Linked Data Gazetteers / Karl Grossner,
Krzysztof Janowicz, and Carsten Keßler
7. The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project / Rainer Simon, Leif
Isaksen, Elton Barker, and Pau de Soto Cañamares
8. Historical Gazetteer System Integration: CHGIS, Regnum Francorum, and
GeoNames / Merrick Lex Berman, Johan Åhlfeldt, and Marc Wick
Section 3: Exemplars
9. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650 / Janelle
Jenstad
10. Digitally Exposing the Place Names of England and Wales / Paul Ell,
Lorna Hughes, and Humphrey Southall
11. Standardizing Names Nationally: The Work of the United States Board on
Geographic Names / Michael Fournier
12. The Yeosi Project: Finding a Place in Northeast Asia Through History /
Youcheol Kim, Byungnam Yoon, Jonghyuk Kim, and Hyunjong Kim
Section 4: Doing History with Gazetteers
13. Mapping Religious Geographies in Chinese Muslim Society / Mark
Henderson and Karl Ryavec
14. Core-Periphery Structure of the Nobi Region, Central Japan, With
Reference to the Work of G. William Skinner / Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi
15. Gazetteer GIS and the Study of Taiwan Local Society and its Transition
/ Pi-ling Pai and I-Chun Fan
References
List of Contributors
Index