Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or continent. Content of a gazetteer can include a subject's location, dimensions of peaks and waterways, population, gross domestic product and literacy rate. This information is generally divided into topics with entries listed in alphabetical order. Ancient Greek gazetteers are known to have existed since the Hellenistic era. The first known Chinese gazetteer was released by the first century, and with the age of print media in …
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NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 3 May 2024 English
Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits – or lack thereof – depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study …
published compilations of statistics, and county gazetteers (see the online data appendix in Chen and Lan …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 9 November 2023 English
transcribed data using historical topographic maps and gazetteers or by checking the collector’s itinerary. Specimen … coordinates were derived mainly from maps and gazetteers; only for a small number of them (374) could …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 4 November 2023 English
geolocation tools like GoogleMaps, GeoNames and other gazetteers, completed when necessary by textual search. …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 3 November 2023
practices easier, controlled vocabularies, geographic gazetteers and ontologies in the specific scientific domain … commercial datasets, or annotating it by the use of gazetteers and ontologies in the specific scientific domain …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 29 October 2023
Geographical dictionaries are usually called gazetteers. Some dictionaries can have an ontological structure …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 26 October 2023 French
features in- cluding POS-tagging and lookups from gazetteers coming in particular from DBpedia and BNF’s authority …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 25 October 2023
Geographical dictionaries are usually called gazetteers. Dictionary and ontologies need regular updates …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 25 October 2023 French
geolocation tools like GoogleMaps, GeoNames and other gazetteers, completed when necessary by textual search …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 24 October 2023
assigned to the voucher using Google Earth and gazetteers, the collecting sites were mapped and a distribution …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 24 October 2023
has external knowledge about toponyms such as gazetteers) (Buscaldi, 2011). However, there is no such …
