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Data and design issues in historical GIS II: The place-based information interface. Contextualizing Places: Gazetteers

Data and design issues in historical GIS II: The place-based information interface. Contextualizing Places: Gazetteers, Maps, and Bibliographical Searches Michael Buckland Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley

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Data and design issues in historical GIS II: The place-based information interface. Contextualizing Places: Gazetteers

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  1. Data and design issues in historical GIS II: The place-based information interface. Contextualizing Places: Gazetteers, Maps, and Bibliographical Searches Michael Buckland Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, April 9, 2005.

  2. Brief report on two projects: Going Places in the Catalog: Improved Geographic Search in Library Catalogs, 2002-04 ecai.org/imls2002/ - Library catalogs records have many unused geographic clues - We linked a catalog with a gazetteer and a map display.

  3.  A catalog record:Isle of Man Tramways. ISBN 0715347403 008 700812 1970 enkabh, b,fe 001 0 eng Country of publication code for England 043 a e-uik– Geographic Area Code. The cataloger has erroneously used the “Country Code” used in field 008, instead of the Geographic Area Code prescribed for 043. Should be e-uk-ui for “Europe. Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies”. 050 0 a TF764.M27 b P4 1970 Geographic code embedded in Library of Congress Classification number 082 0 a 388.4/6/094289 Geographic code embedded in Dewey Decimal Classification number 100 1 a Pearson, Frederick Keith. Author 245 10 a Isle of Mantramways, c by F. K. Pearson;… Place name used adjectivally in title. 260 a Newton Abbot : b David & Charles, c 1970. Place of publication, not in the Isle of Man. 500 a Imprint covered by label: A. M. Kelley, New York. Note that Place of publication obscured. 6102 0 a ManxElectric Railway Company. Adjective for Isle of Man used in corporate name used as subject heading. 650 0 a Street-railroads z Man, Isle of.Geographic subdivision using inverted form of name. The island known as Man is represented six different ways, three searchable.

  4. Support for the Learner: What, When, Where, Who, 2004-06, ecai.org/imls2004 extends this approach through - Named time period directory analogous to a gazetteer - Developing standards for biographical records Facet Authority control Special display tools WHAT Thesaurus Syndetic structure e.g. LCSH WHERE Gazetteer Map e.g. NGA WHEN Time period directory Timeline WHO Biographical dict. Text & images e.g. Who’s Who Biographical records contain “what, where, when, who” tuples: “Born Moscow 1881; married Sophie Posniak in Paris 1906; . . .”&c.

  5. Acknowledgments: The work presented was done by several people especially Aitao Chen (now at Yahoo) and Vivien Petras. Supported by two grants from the [Federal] Institute for Museum and Library Services. Co-PIs: Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, and Michael Buckland ecai.org/imls2002 ecai.org/imls2004 buckland@sims.berkeley.edu Thank-you!

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