36.1017, FYI: ONOMASTICS ONLINE: Studying toponym changes using gazetteers.net - Dariusz Gierczak, Francis Harvey, Eric Losang

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Subject: 36.1017, FYI: ONOMASTICS ONLINE: Studying toponym changes using gazetteers.net - Dariusz Gierczak, Francis Harvey, Eric Losang

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Date: 21-Mar-2025
From: Chrismi Loth [LothC at ufs.ac.za]
Subject: ONOMASTICS ONLINE: Studying toponym changes using gazetteers.net - Dariusz Gierczak, Francis Harvey, Eric Losang

It is our pleasure to invite you to the next Onomastics Online lecture
(International Council of Onomastic Sciences):
Onomastics Online
10 April 2025
18:00 (GMT+2)
Microsoft Teams
Speakers:
Dariusz Gierczak: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East
Central Europe (Germany)
Francis Harvey: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany)
Eric Losang: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany)
Moderator: Peter Jordan: Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria)
Studying toponym changes. Using gazetteers.net to compare differences
in digital repositories.
Preregistration (free) required:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5990044b-ffb9-462f-9d12-4bc6dac9a290@8efc1bb9-b90f-4a48-bf6c-ba0686193b80
Upon registration you will receive an email with the link.
The system will also circulate a reminder with the link an hour before
the event.
Abstract:
In this presentation we describe the concepts and capabilities of the
gazetteers.net application and examples of its use. Designed to help
researchers study changes in toponyms, the current online application
with data from 10 digital repositories for the area of contemporary
Poland helps researchers working in this area with toponyms consider
and compare multiple place names in a selected area. With its
possibilities specialists as well as researchers with questions that
tangent onomastic matters have a potent environment to aid their
research.
In detail, the gazetteers.net web application enables users to search
these digital place name repositories simultaneously, view and compare
the data collected from different gazetteers. In addition, the
application supports the identification of names that may refer to the
same geographical entity, regardless of definitions what constitutes a
geographical place or its historical or present administrative status.
With the functionality for linking corresponding names from these
sources, the application helps facilitate comparisons.
Through examples we consider how the gazetteers.net application helps
with assessments of the consistency, accuracy and uncertainty of
historical place names. The application supports researcher
identification of toponyms from different databases that may refer to
the same geographical entity, during different periods and provides a
means to create links between corresponding elements in different
gazetteers, which can be exported in CSV format files for use in
further comparison and analysis.
Future plans for the application will develop capacities for
researchers to add their data and improve comparison abilities.
Keywords: Toponyms, Gazetteers, Onomastics, Digital Repositories,
Geographical Entities
Link to gazetteers.net: https://gazetteers.net
ICOS policy on privacy:
https://icosweb.net/membership/icos-personal-data-protection-policy/
Register here:
https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5990044b-ffb9-462f-9d12-4bc6dac9a290@8efc1bb9-b90f-4a48-bf6c-ba0686193b80
For queries, please feel free to reach out to the facilitator at
LothC at ufs.ac.za.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

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