Research Catalog

Title

Placing names : enriching and integrating gazetteers / edited by Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall.

Publication

• Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
• [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Berman, Merrick Lex
• Mostern, Ruth, 1967-
• Southall, Humphrey

Description

ix, 265 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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 that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age"--

Series Statement

Spatial humanities

Uniform Title

Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)

Subjects

• Gazetteers
• Gazetteers > History
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Most papers in this volume originate from a conference on "Gazetteers for Space-Time System Integration" held at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-11746

ISBN

• 9780253022448
• 0253022444

LCCN

2016449471

OCLC

933437838

Title

Placing names : enriching and integrating gazetteers / edited by Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

[2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Spatial humanities

Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.

Local Note

ED: HARVARD UNIVERSITY. BASED ON PAPERS FROM A 2010 CONFERENCE.

Added Author

Berman, Merrick Lex, editor.

Mostern, Ruth, 1967- editor.

Southall, Humphrey, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11746