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Tag Archives: gazetteers
Announcing Pelagios 3
“Pelagios 3” is a new two-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation and led by Leif Isaksen (Southampton University), Elton Barker (Open University) and Rainer Simon (Austrian Institute of Technology). It will annotate, link and index place references in digitized … Continue reading
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Tagged gazetteers, linked data, New York, PastPlace, Pelagios 3, Pleiades
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Working with our descriptive gazetteers
A couple of my recent posts have been about defining additional places. This work has partly been about finding geographical locations for administrative units which were previously defined by hierarchic position, meaning the county or district they were part of. … Continue reading
Posted in Content, Website
Tagged A Vision of Britain through Time, gazetteers, places
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SSHA Conference 2011
Humphrey Southall attended the 36th Annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, “Generation to Generation”, this year held in Boston, Massachusetts on 17th-20th November. He participated in various sessions including organizing the two Geographical Frameworks for World History sessions, … Continue reading
New publication: On Historical Gazetteers
This article has just been published: Humphrey Southall, Ruth Mostern and Merrick Lex Berman, “On historical gazetteers”, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Vol. 5 (2011), pages 127-145. It can be accessed online here, so long as you can … Continue reading
Posted in Publications
Tagged academic journal, administrative units, gazetteers, geographical features, places, publication
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