Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers

Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers

Geospatial humanities projects rely on information found in gazetteers to supply the infrastructure for projects. However, a majority of spatial gazetteers provide place names and geographical coordinates but lack contextualizing information that give meaning to a place, making them insufficient res...

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Main Author: Randa El Khatib
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Victoria Libraries 2019-02-01
Series:KULA
Subjects:
cultural gazetteers
topophilia
volunteered geographical information
geospatial humanities
prototyping
Online Access:httpss://kula.uvic.ca/articles/53
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spelling doaj-b0a7d738227145a7a1c48671142cf9982021-04-02T08:41:44ZengUniversity of Victoria LibrariesKULA2398-41122019-02-013110.5334/kula.5337Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural GazetteersRanda El Khatib0Univeristy of VictoriaGeospatial humanities projects rely on information found in gazetteers to supply the infrastructure for projects. However, a majority of spatial gazetteers provide place names and geographical coordinates but lack contextualizing information that give meaning to a place, making them insufficient resources for humanities inquiry. In this article, I explore contemporary approaches to data collection and models for cultural gazetteers set forth by early modern chorographical traditions to lay the foundation for building community-driven, open cultural gazetteers. Concurrently, the role of the public in providing Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) by harnessing user-friendly tools is explored.httpss://kula.uvic.ca/articles/53cultural gazetteerstopophiliavolunteered geographical informationgeospatial humanitiesprototyping
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Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers
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cultural gazetteers
topophilia
volunteered geographical information
geospatial humanities
prototyping
author_facet Randa El Khatib
author_sort Randa El Khatib
title Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers
title_short Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers
title_full Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers
title_fullStr Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers
title_full_unstemmed Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers
title_sort laying the foundation for community-driven, open cultural gazetteers
publisher University of Victoria Libraries
series KULA
issn 2398-4112
publishDate 2019-02-01
description Geospatial humanities projects rely on information found in gazetteers to supply the infrastructure for projects. However, a majority of spatial gazetteers provide place names and geographical coordinates but lack contextualizing information that give meaning to a place, making them insufficient resources for humanities inquiry. In this article, I explore contemporary approaches to data collection and models for cultural gazetteers set forth by early modern chorographical traditions to lay the foundation for building community-driven, open cultural gazetteers. Concurrently, the role of the public in providing Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) by harnessing user-friendly tools is explored.
topic cultural gazetteers
topophilia
volunteered geographical information
geospatial humanities
prototyping
url httpss://kula.uvic.ca/articles/53
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