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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Other Authors: Berman, Merrick Lex (Editor), Mostern, Ruth, 1967- (Editor), Southall, Humphrey (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Series:Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
ISBN:0253022568
9780253022561

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