A NEW TOOL FOR FACILITATING THE RETRIEVAL AND RECORDING OF THE PLACE NAME CULTURAL HERITAGE
Traditional place names (toponyms) represent the immaterial cultural heritage of past land uses, particular characteristics of the territory, landscape related events or inhabitants, as well as related cultural and religious background. In Euopean countries where the cultural landscape has a very...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-07-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-5-W2/115/2013/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-115-2013.pdf |
| Summary: | Traditional place names (toponyms) represent the immaterial cultural heritage of past land uses, particular characteristics of the
territory, landscape related events or inhabitants, as well as related cultural and religious background. In Euopean countries where
the cultural landscape has a very long history, this heritage is particularly considerable. Often most of the detailed knowledge about
traditional place names and their precise localization is non-written and familiar only to old local native persons who experienced the
former rural civilization. In the next future this important heritage will be seriously threatened because of the physical disappearance
of its living custodians. One of the major problems that one has to face, when trying to trace and document the knowledge related to
place names and their localization, is to translate the memory and the former landscape experiences of the respondents into maps and
structured records. In this contribution we present a new tool based on the monoplotting principle and ad hoc developed to enable
the synchronization of terrestrial oblique landscape pictures with the represented digital elevation model. The local respondents are
then just asked to show the place name localization on historical landscape pictures they are familiar with. The tool automatically
gives back the corresponding world coordinates, what makes the interviewing process more rapid and smooth as well as motivating
and less stress-inducing for the informants. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |