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Unveiling Historical Places: Exploring the Significance of Names

Dive into the past with this study on the naming of historical places. Discover the rich tapestry of names in China's history and their importance in understanding the geographical landscape. Learn about the processes of georeferencing and the significance of placename features.

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Unveiling Historical Places: Exploring the Significance of Names

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  1. Finding Places in the Past: What’s in a Name? Lex Berman China Historical GIS Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard PACSL - Philadelphia - Nov 2005

  2. ? ? Khunjerab Khunjirap (pass) (gap) Khunjrab ? ? Kashgar Kashiga’er Kashi (Sinkiang) (Xinjiang, China) Kashghar  ? (China) (China) Peking Pekin Pei-p’ing Nanjing Dadu Yanjing Khabalik Shuntianfu Beijing ? (People’s Republic of China) (Republic of China) (China)  (Zhonghua renmin gongheguo) (Zhongguo) (People’s Republic of China) (PRC) (China)

  3. Broader Term Narrower Term Related Term USE FOR USE Related Term: PartOf = Xinjiang Broader Term: Physiographic Features many gaps defiles passes one

  4. digital gazetteer placename feature type footprint valid date source note

  5. admin unit, populated place, natural feature, religious site, archaeological site, trade route, place where an event occurred, etc placename feature type city, village, mountain, temple, ruin, trade route, etc footprint latitude and longitude for each feature valid date date or range of time for which this record is valid source note citation of data source, commentary on feature core elements of a digital gazetteer

  6. alternate spellings / names administrative context temporal sequence entry related entry type related type feature type thesaurus interoperability differentiating identical placenames differentiating footprints disambiguation coordinate x, y pair in decimal degrees bounding box generic grid reference spatial object in GIS format related footprint functionality of a digital gazetteer

  7. subject: San Ta Temple place: Dali, Yunnan date: 2001

  8. Zhongguo fosizhi zongkan (Fosizhi)

  9. page from Yitongzhi Da Qing yitongzhi (Yitongzhi)

  10. Chugoku no ji’in (Yajima Index)

  11. Comparison of contents - Yitongzhi & Yajima

  12. georeferencing temple records, Yajima sites

  13. georeferencing temple records, CHGIS tables

  14. georeferencing temple records, map view

  15. density of temples at each location

  16. desirable metadata: placename feature type footprint valid date source note street names, complete addresses, building names, parcel or open space names, natural feature names Alexandria Digital Library Feature Type Thesaurus coordinates, bounding box, generic grid reference valid date (be careful of format!) citations are often lacking

  17. China Historical GISProject website:www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis

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