Social Science Human Geography
Placing Names
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2016
- Category
- Human Geography
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780253022448
- Publish Date
- Aug 2016
- List Price
- $66.00
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Description
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.
About the authors
Merrick Lex Berman's profile page
Humphrey Southall's profile page
Michael Frank Goodchild's profile page
Krzysztof Janowicz's profile page
Carsten Kessler's profile page
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Michael R. Fournier's profile page
Mark Henderson teaches English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Sheets of Glass is his first full-length collection of poems.
Editorial Reviews
Those working in computing-related aspects of geographer will find a useful primer in all things gazetteer-related, with special focus on cultural aspects of this emerging and very important sub-field.
Journal of Historical Geography
Placing Names should be on every digital scholar's bookshelf for its concepts, suggestions, intellectual history, and warnings to newcomers in the digital humanities. It announces the arrival of digital gazetteers as intellectual products to be understood and reckoned with by anyone who deals with history and place.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History