Acknowledgements

Preface / Peter K. Bol

Introduction / Ruth Mostern, Humphrey Southall, and Merrick Lex Berman

Section 1: What is a Gazetteer

1. Gazetteers Past: Placing Names from Antiquity to the Internet / Ruth Mostern and Humphrey Southall

2. Gazetteers Present: Spatial Science and Volunteered Geographical Information / Michael F. Goodchild

3. Gazetteers Global: United Nations Geographical Names Standardization / Helen Kerfoot

4. Gazetteers Enriched: A Conceptual Basis for Linking Gazetteers with Other Kinds of Information / Ryan Shaw

Section 2: Using Gazetteers in Combination

5. International Standards for Gazetteer Data Structures / Raj Singh

6. Place, Period, and Setting for Linked Data Gazetteers / Karl Grossner, Krzysztof Janowicz, and Carsten Keßler

7. The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project / Rainer Simon, Leif Isaksen, Elton Barker, and Pau de Soto Cañamares

8. Historical Gazetteer System Integration: CHGIS, Regnum Francorum, and GeoNames / Merrick Lex Berman, Johan Åhlfeldt, and Marc Wick

Section 3: Exemplars

9. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650 / Janelle Jenstad

10. Digitally Exposing the Place Names of England and Wales / Paul Ell, Lorna Hughes, and Humphrey Southall

11. Standardizing Names Nationally: The Work of the United States Board on Geographic Names / Michael Fournier

12. The Yeosi Project: Finding a Place in Northeast Asia Through History / Youcheol Kim, Byungnam Yoon, Jonghyuk Kim, and Hyunjong Kim

Section 4: Doing History with Gazetteers

13. Mapping Religious Geographies in Chinese Muslim Society / Mark Henderson and Karl Ryavec

14. Core-Periphery Structure of the Nobi Region, Central Japan, With Reference to the Work of G. William Skinner / Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi

15. Gazetteer GIS and the Study of Taiwan Local Society and its Transition / Pi-ling Pai and I-Chun Fan

References

List of Contributors

Index