Placing Names
Ruth Mostern (Redaktør) Humphrey Southall (Redaktør) Merrick Lex Berman (Redaktør) Peter Bol (Forord) Michael Frank Goodchild (Innledning) Helen Kerfoot (Innledning) Ryan Shaw (Innledning) Raj Singh (Innledning) Karl Grossner (Innledning) Krzysztof Janowicz (Innledning) Carsten Kessler (Innledning) Rainer Simon (Innledning) Leif Isaksen (Innledning) Elton Barker (Innledning) Pau de Soto Canamares (Innledning) Johan Ahlfeldt (Innledning) Marc Wick (Innledning) Janelle Jenstad (Innledning) Paul S. Ell (Innledning) Lorna Hughes (Innledning) Michael R. Fournier (Innledning) Youcheol Kim (Innledning) Byungnam Yoon (Innledning) Jonghyuk Kim (Innledning) Hyunjong Kim (Innledning) Mark Henderson (Innledning) Karl E. Ryavec (Innledning) Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi (Innledning) Pi-ling Pai (Innledning) I-chun Fan (Innledning)
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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
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Indiana University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780253022448
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
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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
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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