AAG 2011 - Special Track on Historical Gazetteers

Symposium on Space-Time Integration Sessions -  AAG Seattle
co-sponsored by Harvard Univeristy’s Center for Geographic Analysis and the AAG
Wednesday-Friday, April 13-15, 2011

Organized by Peter Bol, Merrick Lex Berman, and Humphrey Southall

See also Temporal Gazetteers Research page

2287.Major Placename Research Projects
Chair: Peter Bol, Harvard University

• Songdi Wu, Fudan University; Zhimin MAN, Fudan University; Tao SUN, Fudan University
  Towards a Database of Chinese Historical Place-Names

• Sean Gillies, New York University; Tom Elliot, New York University
  Pleiades: the un-GIS for ancient geography

• David Parsons, University of Wales
  Place-Names Research in Britain

• Jon Campbell, United States Geological Survey
  Introduction to the Board on Geographic Names

• Marc Wick, GeoNames
  GeoNames

2487. Ontologies of Place; Names and Language
Chair: Peter Bol, Harvard University

• Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth
  Ontologies of Place: What are gazetteers about?

• Ruth Mostern, University of California - Merced

• Merrick Berman, China Historical GIS, Harvard University

2587. Gazetteer Elements; Temporal Frameworks
Chair: Peter Bol, Harvard University

• Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth

• Ruth Mostern, University of California - Merced
  What Belongs in a Gazetteer?

• Merrick Berman, China Historical GIS, Harvard University
  Time in Gazetteer Data Models

3187. Topics in Gazetteer Construction
Chair: Ruth Mostern, University of California - Merced

• Krzysztof Janowicz, The Pennsylvania State University
  Understanding Geographic Feature Types

• Karl Grossner, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Modeling Events and Processes in Historical GIS

• Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth
  Modelling European administrative hierarchies and geographies

3287. Using Historical and Cultural Gazetteers
Chair: Humphrey Southall, University of Portsmouth

• Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Stanford University
  Next generation library catalogs and the integration of gazetteer information for geographical research

• David Germano, University of Virginia
  The Role of Community-Driven Ontologies in Expanding Structured Data in Gazetteers

• Michael Fournier, U.S. Bureau Of the Census
  US Federal Government Gazetteers and Their Potential Utility in Constructing a Temporal GIS

3487. Interoperable gazetteers and the spatially enabled web - What will the future of gazetteers be in the sphere of networked information?
Chair: May Yuan, University of Oklahoma

• 12:40 Mano Marks, Google
  Mapping the past?

• 1:00 Charlie Frye, Esri 
  Rethinking Gazetteers for use as Locators for Online Maps and for Placing Text on Maps.

• 1:20 Xavier Lopez, Oracle USA
  Linking Open Data with Location: Gazetteers and the Semantic Web

3587. Building World Historical Gazetteers from Historical GIS(1)
Chair: Merrick Berman, China Historical GIS, Harvard University

• Guoping Huang, Harvard GSD/CGA
  Linking Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DARMC) Places with Pleiades Gazetteer through Geocoding

• Robert Woodberry, University of Texas At Austin; Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, University of Texas At Austin
  Gazetteers and Linking Historical Data through Time

• Mark Henderson, Mills College; Karl Ryavec, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
  From gazetteers to spatial structures: a study of Chinese Muslim and Tibetan societies, 1800-2011

3687. Data Models and Content Standards
Chair: Karl Grossner, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey; John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey
  Realising the Potential of Gazetteers as Linked Data in the Semantic Web

• Lisa Schelling, American Geographical Society Library
  Standards in Gazetteer Development

• Raj Singh, Open Geospatial Consortium
  Standards in capturing the changing characteristics of a place for disparate interests

4187. Building World Historical Gazetteers from Historical GIS (2)
Chair: Guoping Huang, Harvard GSD/CGA

• Youcheol KIM, professor; Byung Nam Yoon, professor; Hyunjong Kim
  The development of GIS-DB System for the historical gazetteer and its application in East Asia

• Kei-ichi Okunuki; Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Nagoya University, Skinner f s
  GIS Dataset of Early Meiji Japan

• Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Nagoya University,
  Local gazetteers and Land-check survey records in Tokugawa and Meiji Era in Japan

4287. Building a Temporally Enabled Global Gazetteer
Chair: Peter Bol, Harvard University

4587. “There is no place like home!” - Why Historians would want to use a GIS
Chair: Charles Bartlett Travis, Trinity College Dublin

• Alexander Von Lünen, University of Portsmouth
  It’s about time - not! Or: The past does not compute

• Donald Lafreniere, University of Western Ontario; Jason Gilliland, University Of Western Ontario
  Beyond the Narrative: Using H-GIS to Reveal Hidden Patterns and Processes of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Cities

• Charles Bartlett Travis, Dr, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
  The ‘Abstract Machine’ of Historical GIS

• J. B. Owens, Ph.D., Idaho State University
  Using GIS to Explore the Nonlinear Dynamics of Historic Systems.

4687. Space-time historical data analysis and visualisation of Japan
Chair: Tomoki Nakaya, Geography Department, Ritsumeikan University

• Tomoki Nakaya, Geography Department, Ritsumeikan University; Kazumasa Hanaoka, Geography Department, Ritsumeikan University
  Reading space-time clusters of outbreaks on a set of historical disease maps: Analysing an early effort to detect clusters of typhoid fever cases in Kyoto, 1928-9.

• Keiji Yano, Ritsumeikan University; Toshikazu Seto, Ritsumeikan University; Takafusa Iizuka, Ritsumeikan University; Ayako Matsumoto, Ritsumeikan University; Takashi Kirimura, Ritsumeikan University; Tomoki Nakaya, Ritsumeikan University; Yuzuru Isoda, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  Space-time change of urban landscape with Kyo-machiya in Virtual Kyoto.

• Ayako Matsumoto, Ritsumeikan University; Naomi Akaishi, Ritsumeikan University; Toshikazu Seto, Ritsumeikan University; Takafusa Iizuka, Ritsumeikan University; Keiji Yano, Ritsumeikan University
  Spatial Temporal Analysis on the Transition of Street Landscape with Kyo-machiya.

• Michael Batty, University College; Kazumasa Hanaoka, Ritsumiekan University; Tomoki Nakaya, Ritsumeikan University; Oliver O’Brien, University College; Keiji Yano, Ritsumeikan University
  Space-Time Dynamics of the Japanese Urban System.

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