Building a historical gazetteer : extracting place information from city directories
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- Vincent Ducatteeuw (UGent) , Frederic Lamsens (UGent) and Sarah Van Leynseele
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- Gazetteers, also known as geographical indexes, are invaluable for Spatial Humanities (Bol, 2011). Despite the growing availability of FAIR data in the Humanities, spatial information from historical gazetteers often remains unavailable as Linked Open Data. (Wilkinson et al., 2016; Berman, et al., 2016). This has several reasons, including the lack of automated methods for processing historical gazetteers, the need for an adequate ontology for historical geospatial data, and the difficulty of formalizing place in a database management context (Merschdorf and Blaschke, 2018; Garbacz et al., 2021). This poster presents a workflow to process and model geospatial information contained within historical gazetteers and make it available as Linked Open GeoData using the upper-level ontology CIDOC CRM (Ducatteeuw, 2021).
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- gazetteer, spatial humanities, OCR
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8764438
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- Ducatteeuw, Vincent, et al. “Building a Historical Gazetteer : Extracting Place Information from City Directories.” Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts, 2022, doi:10.5281/zenodo.6684047.
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- Ducatteeuw, V., Lamsens, F., & Van Leynseele, S. (2022). Building a historical gazetteer : extracting place information from city directories. Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts. Presented at the Spatial Humanities 2022 (SpatHum2022), Ghent, Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6684047
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- Ducatteeuw, Vincent, Frederic Lamsens, and Sarah Van Leynseele. 2022. “Building a Historical Gazetteer : Extracting Place Information from City Directories.” In Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6684047.
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- Ducatteeuw, Vincent, Frederic Lamsens, and Sarah Van Leynseele. 2022. “Building a Historical Gazetteer : Extracting Place Information from City Directories.” In Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6684047.
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- 1.Ducatteeuw V, Lamsens F, Van Leynseele S. Building a historical gazetteer : extracting place information from city directories. In: Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts. 2022.
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- [1]V. Ducatteeuw, F. Lamsens, and S. Van Leynseele, “Building a historical gazetteer : extracting place information from city directories,” in Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts, Ghent, Belgium, 2022.
@inproceedings{8764438,
abstract = {{Gazetteers, also known as geographical indexes, are invaluable for Spatial Humanities (Bol,
2011). Despite the growing availability of FAIR data in the Humanities, spatial information from
historical gazetteers often remains unavailable as Linked Open Data. (Wilkinson et al., 2016;
Berman, et al., 2016). This has several reasons, including the lack of automated methods for
processing historical gazetteers, the need for an adequate ontology for historical geospatial
data, and the difficulty of formalizing place in a database management context (Merschdorf and
Blaschke, 2018; Garbacz et al., 2021). This poster presents a workflow to process and model
geospatial information contained within historical gazetteers and make it available as Linked
Open GeoData using the upper-level ontology CIDOC CRM (Ducatteeuw, 2021).}},
author = {{Ducatteeuw, Vincent and Lamsens, Frederic and Van Leynseele, Sarah}},
booktitle = {{Spatial Humanities 2022, Abstracts}},
keywords = {{gazetteer,spatial humanities,OCR}},
language = {{eng}},
location = {{Ghent, Belgium}},
title = {{Building a historical gazetteer : extracting place information from city directories}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6684047}},
year = {{2022}},
}
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