Dissertations / Theses: 'Gazetteers'

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Roderick, Ian (Ian Bruce Naish) Carleton University Dissertation Anthropology. "Views from nowhere: a chronotopography of the Victorian gazetteer." Ottawa, 1992.

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Cromley, Gordon A. "Using Digital and Historical Gazetteers to Geocode French Airborne Operations during the French Indochina War." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1417696951.

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Olsen, Marit. "Integrasjon og bruk av gazetteers og tesauri i digitale bibliotek.Søk og gjennfinning via geografisk refert informasjon." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-9152.

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王明妮 and Ming-ni Wang. "A study of the Chinese local gazetteers of Chang Hsueh-ch'eng, 1738-1801, and his methodology." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31207923.

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Gouvêa, Cleber. "Uma Abordagem para o Enriquecimento de Gazetteers a partir de Notícias visando o Georreferenciamento de Textos na Web." Universidade Catolica de Pelotas, 2009. http://tede.ucpel.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/98.

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Georeferencing of texts, that is, the identification of the geographical context of texts is becoming popular in the Web due to the high demand for geographical information and due to the raising of services for query and retrieval like Google Earth (geobrowsers). The main challenge is to relate texts to geographical locations. These associations are stored in structures called gazetteers. Although there are gazetteers like Geonames and TGN, they fail in coverage, lacking information about some countries, and they also fail by weak specialization, lacking detailed references to locations (fine granularity) as for example names of streets, squares, monuments, rivers, neighborhoods, etc. This kind of information that acts as indirect references to geographical locations is defined as Location Indicators . This dissertation presents an approach that identifies Location Indicators related to geographical locations, by analyzing texts of news published in the Web. The goal is to enrich create gazetteers with the identified relations and then perform geo-referencing of news. Location Indicators include non-geographical entities that are dynamic and may change along the time. The use of news published in the Web is a useful way to discover Location Indicators, covering a great number of locations and maintaining detailed information about each location. Different training news corpora are compared for the creation of gazetteers and evaluated by their ability to correctly identify cities in texts of news Georeferencing of texts, that is, the identification of the geographical context of texts is becoming popular in the Web due to the high demand for geographical information and due to the raising of services for query and retrieval like Google Earth (geobrowsers). The main challenge is to relate texts to geographical locations. These associations are stored in structures called gazetteers. Although there are gazetteers like Geonames and TGN, they fail in coverage, lacking information about some countries, and they also fail by weak specialization, lacking detailed references to locations (fine granularity) as for example names of streets, squares, monuments, rivers, neighborhoods, etc. This kind of information that acts as indirect references to geographical locations is defined as Location Indicators . This dissertation presents an approach that identifies Location Indicators related to geographical locations, by analyzing texts of news published in the Web. The goal is to enrich create gazetteers with the identified relations and then perform geo-referencing of news. Location Indicators include non-geographical entities that are dynamic and may change along the time. The use of news published in the Web is a useful way to discover Location Indicators, covering a great number of locations and maintaining detailed information about each location. Different training news corpora are compared for the creation of gazetteers and evaluated by their ability to correctly identify cities in texts of news
Com o advento da Internet e o crescente número de informações disponíveis torna-se necessária a definição de estratégias especiais que permitam aos usuários o acesso rápido a informações relevantes. Como a Web possui grande volume de informações principalmente com o foco geográfico torna-se necessário recuperar e estruturar essas informações de forma a poder relacioná-las com o contexto e realidade das pessoas através de métodos e sistemas automáticos. Para isso uma das necessidades é possibilitar o georreferenciamento dos textos, ou seja, identificar as entidades geográficas presentes e associá-las com sua correta localização espacial. Nesse sentido, os topônimos (ex: nomes de localidades como cidades, países, etc.), devido à possibilidade de identificar de forma precisa determinada região espacial, apresentam-se como ideais para a identificação do contexto geográfico dos textos. Essa tarefa, denominada de Resolução de Topônimos apresenta, no entanto, desafios importantes principalmente do ponto de vista lingüístico, já que uma localidade pode possuir variados tipos de ambigüidade. Com relação a isso a principal estratégia para superar estes problemas compreende a identificação de evidências que auxiliem na identificação e desambiguação das localidades nos textos. Para essa verificação são utilizados geralmente os serviços de um ou mais dicionários toponímicos (Gazetteers). Como são criados de forma manual eles apresentam, no entanto deficiência de informações relacionadas principalmente a entidades que podem identificar, embora de forma indireta, determinados tipos de lugares como ruas, praças, universidades etc., as quais são definidas como Indicadores de Localidade. O presente trabalho propõe uma abordagem para a recuperação dessas entidades aproveitando para isso o caráter geográfico das informações jornalísticas. Para ilustrar a viabilidade do processo diferentes tipos de corpora de notícias foram testados e comparados pela habilidade de criação de Gazetteers com os Indicadores recuperados, sendo os Gazetteers avaliados então pela capacidade de identificação das cidades relacionadas às notícias testadas. Os resultados demonstram a utilidade da abordagem para o enriquecimento de Gazetteers e consequentemente para a recuperação de Indicadores de Localidade com maior simplicidade e extensibilidade que os trabalhos atuais

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Maçan, Eduardo Marcel. "GEOFIER: um sistema de anotação geográfica de textos com o uso de classificadores de aprendizagem de máquina." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3141/tde-21062016-133050/.

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A anotação geográfica de documentos consiste na adoção de metadados para a identificação de nomes de locais e a posição de suas ocorrências no texto. Esta informação é útil, por exemplo, para mecanismos de busca. A partir dos topônimos mencionados no texto é possível identificar o contexto espacial em que o assunto do texto está inserido, o que permite agrupar documentos que se refiram a um mesmo contexto, atribuindo ao documento um escopo geográfico. Esta Dissertação de Mestrado apresenta um novo método, batizado de Geofier, para determinação do escopo geográfico de documentos. A novidade apresentada pelo Geofier é a possibilidade da identificação do escopo geográfico de um documento por meio de classificadores de aprendizagem de máquina treinados sem o uso de um gazetteer e sem premissas quanto à língua dos textos analisados. A Wikipédia foi utilizada como fonte de um conjunto de documentos anotados geograficamente para o treinamento de uma hierarquia de Classificadores Naive Bayes e Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Uma comparação de desempenho entre o Geofier e uma reimplementação do sistema Web-a-Where foi realizada em relação à determinação do escopo geográfico dos textos da Wikipédia. A hierarquia do Geofier foi treinada e avaliada de duas formas: usando topônimos do mesmo gazetteer que o Web-a-Where e usando n-gramas extraídos dos documentos de treinamento. Como resultado, o Geofier manteve desempenho superior ao obtido pela reimplementação do Web-a-Where.
Automatic text geotagging is the process by which mentions of place names and their positions in text are identified as metadata, allowing this information to be used by specialized applications, like Search Engines. It is possible to identify the geographic scope of a document by analysing the toponyms it mentions and then group documents by their geographic context, effectively adding a geographic scope to the documents. This dissertation presents a new method to identify the geographic scope of text, named Geofier. The novelty in Geofier is that it uses machine learning text classifiers, trained without the need of a gazetteer and without making assumptions regarding the language in which the documents are written. Wikipedia was used as the source for a geotagged text dataset in order to train a hierarchy of Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers. The Geofier hierarchy was then trained and evaluated, first using toponyms from the same gazetteer as Web-a-Where and then using n-grams extracted from the training samples as attributes. Geofier performed significantly better when compared to a Web-a-Where implementation.

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Cardoso, Silvio Domingos. "SWI: Um gazetteer interativo para dados sobre biodiversidade com suporte a web semântica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/55/55134/tde-26112015-104610/.

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O Brasil é considerado o país da megadiversidade por abrigar diversas espécies de flora e fauna. Dessa forma preservar essa diversidade é extremamente importante, pois a vida no planeta depende dos muitos ecossistemas que compõem essa biodiversidade. Atualmente, vários estudos sobre formas de recuperar e acessar informações sobre biodiversidade vem sendo discutidos na comunidade científica. Muitas instituições importantes têm disponibilizado gratuitamente seus registros de coletas disponíveis abertamente em repositórios online. No entanto, os dados disponibilizados nesses repositórios contêm informações geográficas imprecisas ou ausentes. Isso acarreta vários problemas como, por exemplo, a inviabilidade da realização de planos sistemáticos para preservar áreas para conservação de espécies ameaçadas. O problema principal para a realização desse plano é determinar com precisão a distribuição dessas espécies. Nesse contexto, o problema de pesquisa identificado é a necessidade de melhorar as informações geográficas contidas em dados sobre biodiversidade disponíveis em repositórios online. Para atacar esse problema, o SWI Gazetteer foi desenvolvido. Ele usa tecnologias da Web Semântica r técnicas de Recuperação de Informação Geográfica para associar coordenadas geográficas a nomes de lugares. Quando procuram por lugares, usuários podem realizar buscas semânticas que conseguem melhores resultados (em relação à precisão e cobertura de dados) que buscas tradicionais por palavras chaves. O Gazetteer também permite a difusão de suas informações usando formatos dos padrões Linked Open Data. Os resultados dos experimentos mostram que o SWI Gazetteer é capaz de aumentar, em até 102%, o número de registros com coordenadas geográficas em amostras representativas de repositórios de dados sobre biodiversidade bem conhecidos (como GBIF e SpecielLink).
Brazil is considered a mega-diversity country for harboring various species of flora and fauna. Therefore preserve this diversity is extremely important, because the life on the planet depends on the many ecosystems that comprise this biodiversity. Currently, several studies on how to recover and access biodiversity information are being discussed within the academic community. Various important institutions have made their biological collection records openly available in online repositories. However, the data available in these repositories contain inaccurate or missing geographic information. This leads to various problems, such as the impossibility of carrying out systematic plans to preserve areas for endangered species. The main problem in realizing these plans is to accurately determine the geographic distributions for these species. In this context, the identified research problem is the need to improve geographic information contained in biodiversity data available in the online repositories. To tackle this problem, the SemanticWeb Interactive Gazetteer (SWI Gazetteer) was developed. It uses Semantic Web technologies and Geographic Information Retrieval techniques to associate geographic coordinates to place names. When searching for places, users can perform semantic searches that achieve better results (in terms of accuracy and data coverage) than traditional keyword search. The gazetteer also allows the dissemination of its information using standard Linked Open Data formats. Experiment results shown that the SWI Gazetteer is able to increase, in up to 102%, the amount of records with geographical coordinates in representative data samples from well know biodiversity sites (such as GBIF and SpeciesLink).

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Kar, Shruti. "Multi-Scale and Multi-Modal Streaming Data Aggregation and Processing for Decision Support during Natural Disasters." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1547811329783514.

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Machado, Ivre Marjorie Ribeiro. "Um gazetteer ontológico para recuperação de informação geográfica." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/SLSS-8HTMQX.

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The volume of spatial information on the Web grows continuously, both as maps and as references to places in documents and pages. Considering user needs for spatial information, it is often necessary to determine the places to which the text in a page refers. This work introduces a proposal for a new generation of gazetteers (place names dictionaries) that includes elements such as spatial relationships, concepts and related terms, essentially forming an ontology of places. This ontological gazetteer, or OntoGazetteer, provides semantic support for solving various common problems in geographic information retrieval. The validation of the proposed structure for the OntoGazetteer was achieved through case studies that covered two categories of geographic information retrieval problems: (1) detection and inference of the geographic context in texts, and (2) disambiguation of place names. These studies showed good results, which recommend the use of the OntoGazetteer in further geographic information retrieval problems.
O volume de informações espaciais na Web cresce a cada dia, tanto na forma de mapas, como de referências a lugares em documentos e páginas. Considerando as necessidades de informação espaciais dos usuários, muitas vezes é necessário determinar a que lugares o texto da página se refere. Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de uma nova geração de gazetteer (dicionário toponímico), que inclui elementos tais como relacionamentos espaciais, conceitos e termos relacionados, formando essencialmente uma ontologia de lugares. Esse gazetteer ontológico, denominado OntoGazetteer, fornece suporte semântico para resolver vários problemas comuns na recuperação de informação geográfica. A validação da estrutura proposta para o OntoGazetteer foi feita a partir de estudos de caso que abordaram duas categorias de problemas de recuperação de informação geográfica: (1) detecção e inferência do contexto geográfico em textos e (2) desambiguação de nomes de lugares. Esses estudos mostraram bons resultados, recomendando o uso do OntoGazetteer em problemas de recuperação de informação geográfica.

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Mountrakis, Georgios. "Image-Based Change Detection Using An Integrated Spatiotemporal Gazetteer." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2000. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/Mountrakis2000.pdf.

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Anglès, i. Nicolás Rosa M. "Onomàstica de l’Espluga Calba." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668488.

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La toponímia s’estudià primer a Alemanya i França (1863 - principis del segle XX). Més endavant s’hi dedicaren publicacions periòdiques: Zeitschrift für Ortsnamenforschungen (Munic, 1925), Revue de dialectologie et toponymie (Bèlgica, 1926) i Revue des études anciennes (França, 1932); i el 1934 es va crear una càtedra a la Universitat de Munic. El 1938 un centenar d’universitats de 21 països assistiren al I Congrés de Toponímia i Antroponímia (París). Des del 1950 el Comitè Internacional de Ciències Onomàstiques (ICOS: http://www.icosweb.net) edita Onoma. Bulletin d’Information et de bibliografie du Comité International des Sciences Onomastiques S’han celebrat congressos internacionals en universitats europees, com ara la de Barcelona (2011). Balari va publicar un estudi etimològic dels noms de cims de muntanyes (1877) i Orígenes históricos de Cataluña (1897), analitzant documents de l’època comtal (s. IX-XII). Simultàniament altres estudiosos del país abordaven la matèria: Sanpere i Miquel, Segura i Gomis. El segle passat hi van treballar: Alcover, Moll, Griera, Montoliu, Carreras i Candi, Miret i Sans, Badia i Margarit, Moreu-Rey, Casacuberta i Coromines. El darrer va col·laborar amb Fabra a partir de 1930 com a tècnic de l’Oficina de Toponímia i Onomàstica (IEC), creada el 1921. El 1989, després de més de cinquanta anys de treball, va començar a publicar l’Onomasticon Cataloniae, i continuà, a l’exili, el projecte de la Secció Filològica, que havia perillat amb la Guerra Civil. Al País Valencià, hi han treballat Sanchis Guarner, Rosselló i Verger, Casanova, Epalza...; a les Illes, Mascaró, Miralles, Aguiló i Ribes, i a la Catalunya Nord, Costa, Guiter, Portet i Peytaví. El present treball s’emmarca en el conjunt de recerques centrades en un municipi que en recullen i preserven l’onomàstica, patrimoni cultural del país, en perill de desaparició, per abandonament de l’agricultura i la migració cap a grans nuclis urbans. Entre els molts publicats en les darreres dècades, hem consultat els de localitats properes a la que és objecte d’estudi: les Borges Blanques, Vallbona de les Monges, Ulldemolins, l’Albi, Fulleda, el Vilosell, Juneda, la Pobla de Cérvoles o Vallclara. Les publicacions d’Amigó, principal expert en inventaris monogràfics d’abast local, ens han servit de model metodològic. També hem tingut en compte altres monografies descriptives dels trets lingüístics de parlars de la mateixa zona de transició dialectal (el Cogul, el Vilosell), articles sobre toponímia del Butlletí Interior de la Societat d’Onomàstica (BISO) i l’estudi de Turull (2007) sobre les terres de ponent (les Garrigues, el Segrià, la Segarra, l’Urgell, la Noguera i el Pla d’Urgell). El nostre recull és el primer d’aquestes característiques sobre l’Espluga Calba. A través de l’onomàstica es constata la presència de trets dialectals propis de la zona i de fenòmens lingüístics fossilitzats en els noms, estudiats gràcies a la gramàtica històrica; també es contribueix al coneixement de l’antroponímia d’altres èpoques, a través de la documentació antiga. A més, hem aplegat informació de caràcter històric vinculada a alguns noms estudiats, fet que hi afegeix un cert caràcter enciclopèdic. La llista de noms conté informació obtinguda d’entrevistes orals i citacions de fonts documentals, a part de material facilitat per altres col·laboradors. La recerca bibliogràfica constitueix el cos de les entrades en què calia plantejar alguna hipòtesi etimològica per a justificar una determinada grafia. Als apèndixs, a manera de sumari, hi ha llistes dels noms, que els agrupen atenent a criteris de significat (partides, trossos de terra, classificació dels cognoms, noms de casa i renoms...), formals (genèrics, diminutius afectius, cognoms feminitzats) o cronològics (cognoms, noms de casa i renoms espluguencs en el decurs del temps). A la introducció, a part de les dades generals que emmarquen la vila en l’espai i en el temps, s’hi resumeixen, a manera de conclusió, les observacions de caire lingüístic extretes de l’anàlisi del material inventariat: nom de la comarca i de la vila, frontera català nord-occidental/oriental, comentaris sobre fonètica, morfosintaxi i lèxic.
Toponymy was first studied in Germany and France (1863 – early s. XX). In 1938 about one hundred universities took part in the I Toponymy and Anthroponymy Summit. In 2011 this conference took place in Barcelona. Since 1950 the International Council of Onomastic Sciences has been editing Onoma. Bulletin d’Information et de bibliografie du Comité International des Sciences Onomastiques. In Catalonia Balari published etymological studies on proper names (1877) and documents analysis (1897). Last century Alcover, Moll, Moreu-Rey, Coromines, and others worked on it. The last one, Fabra’s colleague in the Oficina de Toponímia i Onomàstica (IEC), began to publish, in 1989, the Onomasticon Cataloniae. In the Valencian Country, the Balearic Islands and North Catalonia such studies are being continued. Our work, the first one on Espluga Calba, is inserted in the set of researches about one town which collect its onomastics, in extinction danger due to the agriculture decay and the migration towards big urban centers. Dialectal features of the area and linguistic phenomena fossilized in names, studied by grammar in history, are verified through onomastics. We also contribute to the knowledge of anthroponymy of other times, through ancient documents. Besides, we collected historical information related with some nouns, which make this sample encyclopedia like. Amigo’s woks have been chosen as a methodological guide, because he’s the main expert on local monographic inventories. We checked woks on near towns, monographs describing linguistic features from the same dialectal transition area, reports on toponymy from the Butlletí Interior de la Societat d’Onomàstica and the study by Turull (2007) about the west zone. The list of nouns contains information from oral interviews, documental quotations, bibliographical research in entrances in which we had to pose an etymological hypothesis to justify a certain graphic form, and material from other contributors. In the appendix there are lists of nouns in groups of the same meaning (pieces of land, surnames classifications…), the same form (generics, affective diminutives, feminized surnames) or chronology (date of surnames and alias). Apart from more general items, in the introduction, our conclusion summarizes linguistic comments from the inventory analysis: name of the region and the village, border noth- western/eastern Catalan, phonetics, morphosyntax and lexicon.

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Lax, Elliott Martin 1959. "A Gazetteer of Pleistocene Paleontological Sites on Crete Island, Greece." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558152.

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Zhang, Ziqi. "Named entity recognition : challenges in document annotation, gazetteer construction and disambiguation." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19276/.

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The 'information explosion' has generated unprecedented amount of published information that is still growing at an astonishing rate. As the amount of information grows, the problem of managing the information becomes challenging. A key to this challenge rests on the technology of Information Extraction, which automatically transforms un-structured textual data into structured representation that can be interpreted and manipulated by machines. It is recognised that a fundamental task in Information Extraction is Named Entity Recognition, the goals of which are identifying references of named entities in unstructured documents, and classifying them into pre-defined semantic categories. Further, due to the polysemous nature of natural language, name references are often ambiguous. Resolving ambiguity concerns recognising the true referent entity of a name reference, essentially a further named entity 'recognition' step and often a compulsory process required by tasks built on top of NER. This research presents a body of work aimed at addressing three research questions for NER. The first question concerns effective and efficient methods for training data annotation, which is the task of creating essential training examples for machine learning based NER methods. The second question studies automatically generating background knowledge for NER in the form of gazetteers, which are often critical resources to improve the performance of NER methods. The third question addresses resolving ambiguous name references, a further 'recognition' step that ensures the output of NER to be usable by many complex tasks and applications. For each research question, the related literature has been carefully studied and their limitations have been identified and discussed. New hypotheses and methods have been pro-posed, leading to a number of contributions: - an approach to training data annotation for supervised NER methods, based on the study of annotator suitability and suitability based task allocation; - a method of automatically expanding existing gazetteers of pre-defined semantic categories exploiting the structure and knowledge of Wikipedia; - a method of automatically generating untyped gazetteers for NER based on the 'topic-representativeness' of words in documents; - a method of named entity disambiguation based on maximising the semantic relatedness between candidate entities in a text discourse; - a review of lexical semantic relatedness measures; and a new lexical semantic relatedness measure that harnesses knowledge from different resources. The proposed methods have been evaluated by carefully designed experiments, following the standard practice in each related research area. The results have confirmed the validity of their corresponding hypotheses, as well as the empirical effectiveness of these methods. Overall it is believed that this research has made solid contribution to the re-search of NER and related areas.

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Wilson, Robert T. O. "Gazetteer of historical North-West Yemen in the islamic period to 1650 /." Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35694108z.

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Winslow, Scott E. "Putting Bodie in its place| A thematic gazetteer of a California ghost town." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1526972.

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America has long recognized that protection and preservation of its cultural landmarks are in the public interest and crucial to maintaining its legacy of cultural resources for future generations. Despite these efforts, many historical sites continue to be lost. Bodie State Historic Park, one of 278 historically significant sites within the California State Park system, represents one such at-risk landmark.

This thesis is intended to augment current efforts to preserve and promote this unique cultural landscape by developing a GIS-based inventory of the nearly 170 buildings that comprise the remnants of Bodie, and creating a GIS-based thematic gazetteer that links historical attributes with the built environment. The chapters that follow describe ways in which GIS has been specifically adapted for use in historical research, and demonstrate that traditional methods of historical landscape reconstruction and visualization in GIS can be enhanced through the use of site-specific, high-resolution aerial imagery and photogrammetry.

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Grieshaber, Frank. "GODOT: graph of dated objects and texts: building a chronological gazetteer for antiquity." Epigraphy Edit-a-thon : editing chronological and geographic data in ancient inscriptions ; April 20-22, 2016 / edited by Monica Berti. Leipzig, 2016. Beitrag 6, 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15468.

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Bergendahl, Lisa Kay. "Colonial Women in the Pennsylvania and Virginia Gazettes." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625950.

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Howell, Mark Hunter. "A War of Words: Satire and Song in the Pre-Revolutionary Virginia Gazettes." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626155.

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Stead, Roberta E. "Towards a classification of Australian Aboriginal stone arrangements : an investigation of methodological problems with a gazetteer of selected sites." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110256.

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A classification of Australian Aboriginal stone arrangements is fundamental to the understanding of their function and social significance for both Australian and world prehistory. The implications of certain problems with the archaeological data for a classification of arrangements, such as dating and inadequate reporting, are discussed. Possible principles governing the mode of construction, design and location of arrangements are investigated, and the criteria for classification suggested. A two-tier classification is proposed. On the first level, the technological and morphological characteristics of discrete stone arrangements are organised into classes. On the second level, the combination of arrangement classes at any one site defines site types. 144 sites in four regions in New South Wales are classified. Comparisons are made between classes and site types within each region and across regions. Existing opinions about the distribution of so-called 'simple' and 'complex' types are challenged. An investigation of the relationship between classes or site types, and other kinds of archaeological sites, such as rock art, reveals no perfect correlations either within one region or across regions. It is proposed that any governing principles are more likely to have operated at a local level, reflecting such factors as local topography, beliefs and traditions, and population density, rather than at a universal level. The significance of a classification of stone arrangements for studies on culture areas, and on complex Aboriginal hunter-gathering is discussed. Further research is proposed with regard to the former. The construction and location of many arrangements is regarded as evidence for a considerable investment of time and energy in non-subsistence activities. It is suggested that these stone arrangements are associated with the archaeological evidence identified by Australian and overseas researchers, for an increasingly more complex stage in the evolution of hunter-gatherers, in which ceremonial and ritual requirements were paramount.

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Ternstrom, Myrtle Sylvia. "Lundy : an analysis and comparative study of factors affecting the development of the island from 1577 to 1969, with a gazetteer of sites and monuments." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 1999. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3357/.

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The dates chosen for the thesis encompass the development of Lundy from an isolated subsistence economy, reliant on the harvesting of sea birds and rabbits, to a small village community with increasing economic dependence on seasonal visitors. This change is considered in the context of a comparative study of small islands, and in relation to the broader context of regional and national economic and social background. These, with new researches and the re-examination of existing texts, have enabled a fuller and more accurate account of Lundy's history than has hitherto been offered. This study concludes that while many factors have shaped. Lundy's development, the most illuminating have been the geography, the nature of the ownership in its response to the island and the dynamics of change, and the effect of external factors in the last two centuries. It is also suggested that the island has been more consistently populated than was previously thought. Claims to extra-ordinary legal status for Lundy are examined, and considered to be without substance. It is found that Lundy's extra-parochial status, and exclusion from administrative processes until the mid-twentieth century, rested on its isolation and lack of importance in terms of size or the value of its resources. This lack of importance has also contributed to the present re-interpretation of island resources. The study exemplifies the proposition that understanding of local history does not rest on a sequence of documented events in one place, but upon the integration of documentary, archaeological, cartographic, photographic and artistic resources taken in the broader context of comparative studies, and a wider understanding of external historical, economic and social circumstances. The systematic cross reference of the gazetteer of the sites and monuments to the main text serves both to illuminate some parts of the history, and to provide a firm base from which future work may proceed.

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Larsen, Nickolaus B. "Belongings." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555333208810138.

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Boutin, Claude. "Les gazettes parisiennes d’Abraham de Wicquefort pendant la Fronde (1648-1652) : cinq années d’information sur la vie politique, les relations internationales et la société nobiliaire française." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040127.

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De 1648 à 1653, la France connut de graves soulèvements contre l’autorité du roi et de ses représentants, notamment le cardinal Mazarin, principal ministre. Parmi les nombreux récits donnés par les chroniqueurs et mémorialistes, figurent les lettres, inédites en quasi-totalité, qu’un ressortissant hollandais résidant à Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort, adressa chaque semaine pendant ces cinq années à son mentor allemand, le duc de Wolfenbüttel : l’auteur y transmet et commente les péripéties de la Fronde des juges, tant dans la capitale que dans les provinces, puis de l’emprisonnement de Condé et de la Fronde princière corrélative, suivie de la guerre civile qui la prolongea après la majorité de Louis XIV, ainsi que les nouvelles des combats à la frontière française des Pays-Bas espagnols, en Italie et en Catalogne, tout en relatant des événements de toutes natures qui scandaient la vie des grandes familles du royaume, avec une richesse d’informations qui en font une source du plus grand intérêt pour la connaissance de l’histoire politique et culturelle de l’époque
From 1648 to 1653, France suffers a severe uprising against the authority of the King or his representatives, and particularly Cardinal Mazarin, main minister. Beside many accounts written by the chroniclers and narrators of that time, Abraham de Wicquefort, a Dutch citizen living in Paris, composes weekly letters to his German principal, the Duke of Wolfenbüttel. Most of them have never been published to this date : the author notifies and comments the events occurring during the rebellion of the judges in Paris and the provinces known as the “Fronde”, reports on the sequestration of the Prince of Condé and the subsequent revolt of the nobles, followed by the civil war when Louis the fourteen reaches his majority. He also covers various battles at the Spanish Flanders’ border, in Italy or Catalonia, while relating a multiplicity of events transpiring from the main families of the Kingdom with a great affluence of information, making these letters a fascinating source to understand the political and cultural history of this period

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CHENG, SHUN-CHIEN, and 鄭順謙. "Creating Gazetteers of Artifact Entities by Bootstrapping Method." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88621042775914595807.

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碩士
國立臺灣海洋大學
資訊工程學系
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The thesis studies on the artifact named entity recognition. 10 types of different artifacts were defined. There are abundant resources for the MOVIE artifacts, so it is more easily to verify the performance of a NE recognizer. Starting from the MOIVE name recognition, a useful method was proposed to create gazetteers from the Internet by a bootstrapping algorithm. This method can be extended to the other artifact types. By using a gazetteer constructed by hand, the gazetteer lookup method checking all the quoted strings in development set achieved an F-measure of 48.2%. The idea of “companion gazetteer” was proposed. For MOVIE names, a companion gazetteer is a list of names of persons who are relevant to the movie industry. After finding new elements of the MOVIE gazetteer and the movie-related PERSON gazetteer by the proposed bootstrapping algorithm, recognizing movie names in the development set achieved an F-measure of 62.6% by using the final version of the MOVIE gazetteer. The data set used to create a MOVIE gazetteer was then shifted to the Internet. Two filtering rules were proposed in the bootstrapping algorithm in order to select more accurate movies names and movie-related person names. When a candidate string was not collected in the gazetteer, it would be judged immediately from the Internet resources following the filtering rules. By using such a method to identify MOVIE names, it achieved an F-measure are 69.6% in the development set, and 55.6% in the test set, which were the best results in this thesis. The idea of using context feature terms was also proposed. But it has been proved not a good solution. By using condition probability, corpus frequency, chi-square, setting context window as the whole document or a 40-word passage, some context feature terms were selected accordingly. Two features corresponding to each feature term were then used to train a MOVIE name identifier by machine learning. The best performance was an F-Measure of 63.7% in the development set when the context window was set to be the whole document and the chi-square values were used to select top 100 context feature terms. A bootstrapping method was also proposed to select context feature terms for machine learning. By using the list of movie names in the development set as a seed, the best F-measure is 64.9% when some filtering rules were applied.

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Lai, Horng-wen, and 賴弘文. "Maps in Local Gazetteers of the Chin Dynasty." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93070188120095777256.

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Soon, Kean Huat Miller Douglas Alan. "A framework for developing a geographic ontology for gazetteers." 2009. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/worldwideindex/etd-4263/index.html.

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Li, Yu-Chuen, and 李鈺淳. "An Integrated System of Produces and Officials of Taiwanese Gazetteers." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11149335749809802408.

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碩士
國立臺灣大學
資訊工程學研究所
100
A local gazetteer is a book that describes the government, economy, commodities, environment, people, etc of a place. It is perhaps the most important form of reference book for a region in Chinese history. In this thesis we analyzed the officials and local produces contained in 23 Taiwanese gazetteers, written between 1685 and 1898. For the officials, we studied the patterns and extracted, automatically, information such as the person’s name, the title, dates of assuming and leaving the office, the position that person had before taking this office and the one after (if any), place of birth, scholarly title held, etc. For the produce we analyzed the categories as given in each book, the items in each category, and the relationships among the different books in the categories and their contents. In addition to presenting the original contents in the gazetteers, our work provides a different way to compare them and to analyze them.

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HSIAO, YU-SHAN, and 蕭宇珊. "The Study on Taiwan’s Gazetteers about Religious Temples in Qing Period." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zx7cxg.

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碩士
國立臺北大學
歷史學系
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The development of Chinese Gazetteers has a long history, because it can be used both as a historical Geography and as a historical document, the impact on Chinese culture is also extremely influential. The scope of the local records contains social, geographical, economic, political, cultural, military, institutional, and human factors. It is also of great help with Chinese history context due to its rich records and collections of materials. People from Fujian and Guangdong had undergone a long and hard journey and led such a life full of hardships in Taiwan, religious belief has become the center of life in order to look for spiritual tranquil. Therefore, if we want to understand Taiwanese society in depth, religious belief is the best approach to reaching the goal. And temples mainly serve as the most direct locations of religious belief since their existences are the links between the country and the people. and become the bridge of their mutual communication as well. In addition to retaining the history of the temples, the compilation and writing of religious temples in Gazetteers can also reflect local officials’ attitudes toward folk temples and set off their state power. Nevertheless, so far, in the Taiwan’s Gazetteers, the compilation and writing of religious temples is too scattered among the Taiwan various categories in Qing Period without being collected into a volume. This article/thesis This article/thesis uses the photocopy and publishing of The Qing Period Taiwanese official Gazetteers of the three versions, such as the the Publishing House, the Cultural Construction Committee of the Executive Yuan, and the school publication of Yuanliu Publishing as the main research historical materials,, supplemented with other personal relevant books “Wuhu Zhilue”, “Wuhu Jiluo”, “Taiwan Zhiluo”, to further explore the classification of religious temples through the local chronicles. Foreigners, magazines, and monuments are also used to analyze the classification patterns and standards of religious temples to construct the compiler’s personal subjective consciousness and value as well as the hidden thought of great unification and the orthodoxy of state power.

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-ying, Li pei, and 李佩穎. "The Song Dynasty's local gazetteers narration by arts and literature research." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95669236589192778455.

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碩士
國立臺北大學
古典文獻學研究所
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Local chronicle is a kind of literature material which contains political military, Geography situation, Humanities local customs and etc. Because of the dynasty alternates, ancient codes and records are scattered and lost very seriously, especially for geographic atlas. So the development of the local chronicle is still a controversial issue until now. The existing local chronicles are mostly edited in the Ming Dynasty and Manchu Dynasty. The local chronicles are widely compiled in Ming Dynasty and Manchu Dynasty which is not a coincident. It is approve that local chronicle is revised and continuously so it cause the heyday of editing local chronicle in Ming Dynasty and Manchu Dynasty. There are 29 local chronicles of Song Dynasty preserved completely. On the other hand, most the Chinese academic circle is used commonly, There is nothing more than Yi Wen Zhi and Jing Ji Zhi of the Local Gazetteers . When reading and reorganizing the related materials,the author found which the suitable rich of Literary arts literature be gathered the 29 books of the Song Dynasty Local Gazetteers, the compilation and description way is quite special. Therefore the author hopes by the 29 books Local Gazetteers of Song Dynasty, analysis literary arts materials, each data be detailed compilation and compared. Further construction this kind of material whether with Ming、Ching Dynasty Yi Wen Zhi and Jing Ji Zhi of the Local Gazetteers ,whether to have the relations which extends receives.

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Chang, Yi, and 張逸. "Sentence Segmentation for Tomb Biographies of Tang Dynasty and Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7d9gn3.

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碩士
國立政治大學
資訊科學系
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Prior to the 20th century, using punctuation in articles hasn't become a total phenomenon. Therefore readers have to comprehend passages through their personal experiences and the notion to the context, which caused challenges to decode articles accurately due to individual differences. Thus, the punctuation is a difficult first step towards the understanding of articles. Although plenty research has been done, a fully optimized performance automatic punctuation system is still yet to come. In search of the best optimized combination of auto-punctuation system, this research designed an experiment protocol which testing various combination of evaluation index, e.g., Precision, Recall, F1 and previous research data. The experiment protocol was using “Tomb Biographies of Tang Dynasty” and “Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers” as text corpus, in which the Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), favorited and well-performed models in the past research, was applied as a baseline for conducting further experiment of the combination of feature and model. For the feature related experiment was extracting valid entry via adding various item entry in baseline; the model related experiment was enhancing model performance by observing various machine learning and model training methods. The results of the study shows that the best performed feature was the context and statistic of word segmentation. As for the best model was the combination of CRF and LSTM, the CRF+LSTM, in which the shortcoming of algorithm in CRF was patched as enhancement. As the result, the F1 score of both text corpuses: “Tomb Biographies of Tang Dynasty” and “Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers” were reached 0.873 and 0.675.

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Liu, Chun-Chin, and 劉郡芷. "The Record of Cultural Heritage in the Ching''s Gazetteers of Taiwan." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d9vn6h.

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國立臺北藝術大學
建築與古蹟保存研究所
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Since the 17th century, the new sea routes and prosperous maritime trade has brought Taiwan onto the world stage. Ping-pu tribes, Dutch and Spanish were once active on the island. The beginning of the social structure of Han people in Taiwan was established gradually after the Kong-Xi empire incorporated Taiwan into its Qin Dynasty territory.The Qin government produced more than 40 volumes of the Taiwan Gazetters over the course of 200 years in its time of governance. From a cultural heritage point of view, it is worth to look more closely into the differences and similarities of the items listed in the “Landmarks” and “Customs” chapters of Taiwan Gazetters and those being protected under current regulations. Through these two chapters, this article will discuss its attitude towards cultural heritages, and discover the connections between these listed items and different current heritages. Comparisons and integrations will be made afterwards through current cultural heritage regulations. One can see the cultural heritage points of view of the Qin Dynasty through the linear study of Taiwan Gazetters. These views will lead to the organization of changes and connectivity between different periods, and the discovery of the parallels of the immigration and multi-cultural exchange of the Han people. To compare the past and current concepts, one can not only fill the content gap of today’s cultural heritage and discover how the past applies to the present, but to enhance current regulations through review of the past.

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CHAO, CHUN-HSIANG, and 趙俊祥. "The historical process of monuments in Taiwan -a study based on Ching''s gazetteers "Monument”." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87313705103995869009.

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Wu, Yi-Jong, and 吳宜蓉. "The Culture Reflection Under Imperial Ching Dynasty-- the Compiling Visual Field in Taiwan Gazetteers and the Reconstruction of the Image of Taiwanese People in the “Folk Custom Category”." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76840189615048932567.

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碩士
淡江大學
歷史學系碩士在職專班
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Taiwan was incorporated into the operation system of the Chinese Qing Empire in the Kangxi twenty third year (AD 1684). This giant empire was about to know the tiny island located in the southeast coast. A huge empire machine was ready to mesh its heavy wheels with the pinion of the small island, and activated the driven wheel by giving island the rhythms and tempos that empire’s memberships required. Question is, how to "chimera"? How to let the tiny island familiar with the rhythms of this giant and sophisticated operation system appropriately? Therefore, the Qing empire utilized Taiwan gazetteers (fangzhi方志) to understand this unfamiliar island which he had never met before, in order to control the people and consolidate its political power. That is not only necessary but would be a relatively considerate and wise policy. However, as the Taiwan gazetteers (fangzhi方志) acted as the eye of the empire, it was seemingly an objective, rigorous , and systematic narratives; moreover, it was also written and influenced under inherent values and ideology of the empire. All things are placed in a specific classification and category, and the connotation of narratives represented was also shaped by the process and how compilers had illustrated. In other words, when viewers were reading, the tendency of subject values has already confined the viewers deeply in a set of customs and limitation. Therefore, I believe that the selections and tendencies of the subjective values had been already rooted deeply in the Qing Dynasty Taiwan gazetteers writers and editors’ minds before their investigation on the customary field works(cǎi fēng wen su采風問俗). Also, they had decided the narrative structure and directions under the Qing Dynasty gazetteers(fangzhi方志) official normative framework. The thesis put emphasis on the Qing Dynasty Taiwan gazetteers writers and editors and the compiling visual field in Taiwan Gazetteers. In addition to organizing the areas, compiling years, and the name list of writers and editors, the paper will analyze how they documented Taiwan, how they illustrated good morals, and how they reported the facts from their observations and perspectives; then to present the gazetteers based on their own value tendency and exiting cultural framework that empire established.

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David, Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho. "Xiangshan xianzhi 香山縣誌 e Aomen Jilüe 澳門紀略 : fontes locais chinesas para uma história cultural de Macau : 1661-1796." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/10126.

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Este trabalho encontra-se enquadrado num projecto financiado pela Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia: "Tomás Pereira S.J. Vida Obra e Época", coordenado pelo Professor Doutor Luís Filipe Barreto, Director do Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, I.P. O objectivo desta tese é vir integrar o quadro histórico-cultural deste projecto, fornecendo dados sobre Macau e o distrito de Xiangshan entre 1661-1796 tal como emergem nas fontes coevas em língua chinesa, nomeadamente, as gazetas locais do distrito de Xiangshan (Xiangshan Xianzhi 香山縣誌) e a Monografia de Macau (Aomen Jilüe 澳門記略).
This work is part of a project funded by the Science and Technology Foundation, names ―Tomás Pereira S. J. Life, Works and Era‖, coordinated by Professor Luís Filipe Barreto, Director of the Scientific and Cultural Centre of Macau, a public institution. The aim of this thesis is that it will be part of historical and cultural framework of this project insofar as it will provide data on Macau and the Xiangshan district for the period from 1661 to 1796 as they emerge in Chinese language sources of the time, namely in local gazetteers of the Xiangshan district (Xiangshan Xianzhi 香山縣誌) and in the Macau Monograph (Aomen Jilüe 澳門記略).

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Hsu, Hui-Ling, and 徐惠玲. "A Compative Study of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan CountyExamples of Art and Culture Gazetteer." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p7s988.

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博士
銘傳大學
應用中國文學系博士班
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The compiling of gazetteer includes materials investigating, assembling, textual researching, classifying, composing, and editing; with each section persists infallible attitudes, standpoints and manners to cope with problems, and to look for accurate viewpoints, detailed contents, and thorough styles of gazetteer compiling. And yet, how to successfully compile the gazetteers and to help readers read conveniently as well depends on the gazetteer’s arbitration in knowledge, talents, and virtues of history. While gazetteer development entered into a brand new stage in postwar Taiwan, gazetteer compiling has become prevalent, and gazetteer styles and compiling methods get more scientific; therefore, the repairing and constructing of gazetteers has contributed tremendously to Taiwanese gazetteers. This study takes Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County as examples to make it as a start for more aficionados to devote into this research field and to help make Taiwanese gazetteers more perfectly. This dissertation has divided into seven chapters and eighteen sections with fifteen appendices and references written in more than two hundred thousand words. The scaffolding of the research is mainly based on history development and assisted with gazetteer compiling to explore the development of Chinese and Taiwanese gazetteer compiling; and also to further investigate the compiling progress of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County after WWII in Taiwan through systematical collation and discussion to summarize the monolithic research results. In addition, at the end of each chapter, there is a brief sum-up to round up the focus of the chapter. The following is to clarify the arrangements of the chapters and sections: Chapter I is Preface which is to elaborate the purpose, methodology, document exploring, and research structures of this dissertation. Chapter II—The Compiling and Development of Chinese Gazetteers, generally recounts related materials of Chinese conventional gazetteer compiling and Taiwanese gazetteers with investigation of two sections of Chinese Gazetteer Exploring and Chinese Gazetteer Compiling to explain respectively the origins, definition, denomination, attributes, classification, characteristics, and theories of gazetteers; and recounts the generally situation of Chinese gazetteer compiling development in generations to examine the “constancy” and “difference” of Chinese gazetteer compiling convention. Chapter III is Progress of Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling. Three sections include Prewar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling, Postwar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling, and Features of Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling; among them, Prewar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling includes gazetteers of Qing Dynasty and Japanese period, Postwar Taiwanese Gazetteer Compiling, to examine the gazetteer compiling circumstances of Taiwan Provincial Common History Historica and archives of every county in order to understand the general situation of gazetteer compiling in postwar Taiwan. Chapter IV is the compiling of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County, which includes Compiling Background of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County, Compiling Team and Review System of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County, Content and Structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi Count, to explain respectively every edition of Chiayi County Gazetteer, compiling team members, process of reviewing, and the compiling contents and structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County. Chapter V is the compiling of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, also contains Compiling Background of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, Compiling Team and Review System of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, Contents and Structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County, to explain respectively every edition of Taoyuan County Gazetteer, compiling team members, process of reviewing, and the compiling content and structures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County. Chapter VI is Comparing the Compiling of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County—Centered with Arts and Cultures. As the “Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures” plays a decisive role in the gazetteer, the major studying object will be the arts and cultures of the county gazetteer. However, contents of a gazetteer is immense and diverse that to understand the processing history of “Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures” and to observe its contents fair-mindedly, we examine the definitions, phases of “arts and cultures” in official history and gazetteer from the existing historical records of Qin Dynasty in ancient China until the present before we investigate gazetteer of arts and cultures in Chiayi and Taoyuan Counties. Then, we comb out the records gathered in all previous postwar Chiayi and Taoyuan gazetteer compiling one by one to study their contents and structures, or to accurately master the compiling of arts and cultures gazetteer of Chiayi and Taoyuan Counties through analyzing citied materials, chart rules, collected number of people and compiling team members in order to make reasonable statements for the features and values of gazetteer of arts and cultures of Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County. This chapter investigates three sections respectively in “Definitions of Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures in Chronicles”, “Contents and Structures of Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures in Chiayi and Taoyuan Counties”, “Feature and Values of Gazetteer of Arts and Cultures in Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County. Chapter VII is Conclusion. Three sections include “Research of Gazetteer”, “The Meaning of Gazetteer History in Newly Revised Gazetteer of Chiayi County and Newly Revised Gazetteer of Taoyuan County” and “Response and Innovation of Gazetteer Compiling” to summarize the research results of this study and to propose suggestions as references of gazetteer compiling afterwards to make it more perfect.

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Chang, Pei-Chiang, and 張沛強. "An Advanced Reading and Annotation System for the Pingtung County Gazetteer." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3tyu4w.

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碩士
國立臺灣大學
資訊工程學研究所
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It is quite common for researchers to put their research results on the Internet for public use. The most standard way is to cover a paper into a pdf (Portable Document Format) file for people to download and read. This method, although convenient, prohibits the author from utilizing other useful references such as external links or maps that can serve as reading aid. Furthermore, a research paper, such as an article on history, may contain geographical names whose locations are not familiar to the general reader. 　　In this study we present an annotation system through which an author can easily link his or her article with external sources. The system provides a platform on which one can annotate person names, place names and special terms and link them with external sources such as maps and encyclopedia. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we use the Pingtung County Gazetteer as the target text. The external sources include the Encyclopedia Taiwania, Short Biographies of Ming and Qing Taiwanese, historical maps from the Academia Sinica, and the Google map. In addition to the annotation system, we have also provided an interface so that users can use a browser to read the annotated text easily.

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Chang, Ya-Wen, and 張雅雯. "Historiography of Ming-Qing Gazetters of Jiading County in Souther Jiangsu." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14269324715592659400.

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東吳大學
歷史學系
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Gazetteer is a type of genre with many valuable resources for contemporary scholars. It not only draws our attention to look into the conditions of context how gazetteers were made, but also practical reference for executives; and further, for persons who took compiling as their mission, gazetteer bore the sincere expectation from local society, and a media carried out recording local stories and constructing local imaginations. In the course of historic approach, compiling gazetteer was a prevalent action from royal court to local provinces, prefectures, counties in Ming and Qing Dynasty which both were golden age for compiling gazetteer. County gazetteers were processed practically via investigating local conditions and collecting material on the spot. Within the period of Ming and Qing Dynasty, the times of compiling Jiading county gazetteer was most intensive. this article focus on Jiading county, not only clarify the context and origin of Jiading county gazetteers, but try to understand the motive and power why Ming and Qing Dynasty keep compiling gazetteer. By comparing to different styles of Jiading county gazetteers, although both were unavoidable trend for style to be systematic and for content to be limited gradually, compilers still observed the unique character of local place and tried to render the special feature of Jiading.

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Liao, Yi-chen, and 廖宜真. "The Illustration of Historical Spatio-Temporal Information based on Open Gazetteer Data." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66574599690706242653.

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國立成功大學
測量及空間資訊學系碩博士班
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As time passes by, human history has been through many stages ofevolution and a huge number of historical literature, documents, and mapswere produced to record the real world phenomena in different periods oftime. The dedicating efforts toward historical change analysis enable us totrace the historical evolution tracks and re-construct the spatio-temporal statusin the past. The ‘Digital Archives Project’ aims to preserve historical literatureand maps in numerical formats with innovated computer technology, throughwhich relevant resources could be effectively managed, analyzed, and integrated with GIS. By exploring the spatial nature of the historical data, GIS-based map interface allows users to perceive historical status from a spatio-temporal perspective, a revolutionary breakthrough when compared to the traditional research technique. One prerequisite for a comprehensive research is to easily collect all relevant data and correctly rebuild their corresponding relationship. Historical information in the Internet, however, is often created and distributed independently in an unorganized way and such heterogeneity no doubt impedes the direct sharing and interoperable use of historical information. Obstacles remained unresolved at least includes (1) how to make the best use of existing historical resources in a distributed environment; (2) how to reduce the barriers regarding the access to information; (3) how to simplify the process of integrating and analyzing historical information and (4) how to provide a correct illustration aid towards the displayed map contents. This research proposed to investigate the integration of distributed historical information from an OpenGIS perspective. An application schema capable of modeling the spatial, temporal and thematic components of historical information is developed, which allows distributed resources to provide standardized encoding of various aspects of historical status of reality in terms of placenames, events and time. This open and standardized architecture enables users to transparently interpret and integrate historical information collected from heterogeneous resources in a standardized and straightforward way. Based on the understanding of all the spatio-temporal aspects of historical information, we further develop a gazetteer information integration mechanism to establish necessary spatial links between separated pieces of information regarding a historical site and a correct temporal ordering of its associated events. The vagueness and inconsistent problem of temporal descriptions has also been addressed with different levels of uncertainty. This integrated historical information can then be illustrated in the map interface with given spatial and temporal constraint. Based on cartographic knowledge, the map interface includes a built-in visual aid mechanism to indicate the possible uncertainty and conflict among historical information collected from heterogeneous data resource. This research successfully demonstrates the OpenGIS architecture allows the distributed historical information to be easily modeled, accessed and integrated, in spite of their possible heterogeneous nature. The knowledge-based information integration architecture further provides researchers a friendly environment to simultaneously inspect all collected data and avoid possible wrong judgment from a spatio-temporal perspective. As the volume of distributed historical information continues to increase in the future, researchers’ applications can be easily developed and expanded with this proposed OpenGIS prototype.

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Sabrah, Rania Abd El Fattah Ahmed. "Enhancing information retrieval in folksonomies using ontology of place constructed from Gazetteer information." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/2548.

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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
Folksonomy (from folk and taxonomy) is an approach to user metadata creation where users describe information objects with a free-form list of keywords (‘tags’). Folksonomy has have proved to be a useful information retrieval tool that support the emergence of “collective intelligence” or “bottom-up” light weight semantics. Since there are no guiding rules or restrictions on the users, folksonomy has some drawbacks and problems as lack of hierarchy, synonym control, and semantic precision. This research aims at enhancing information retrieval in folksonomy, particularly that of location information, by establishing explicit relationships between place name tags. To accomplish this, an automated approach is developed. The approach starts by retrieving tags from Flickr. The tags are then filtered to identify those that represent place names. Next, the gazetteer service that is a knowledge organization system for spatial information is used to query for the place names. The result of the search from the gazetteer and the feature types are used to construct an ontology of place. The ontology of place is formalized from place name concepts, where each place has a “Part-Of” relationship with its direct parent. The ontology is then formalized in OWL (Web Ontology Language). A search tool prototype is developed that extracts a place name and its parent name from the ontology and use them for searching in Flickr. The semantic richness added to Flickr search engine using our approach is tested and the results are evaluated.

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Shu-HuiWang and 王淑蕙. "Gazetteer Fu、Testing Fu and Media Fu──Third of Stage to Discuss for Taiwan Fu." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86130493210589645575.

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國立成功大學
中國文學系碩博士班
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Abstract This thesis investigates the development of Taiwan Fu texts, and underlines how the ruling ideology intervenes and engenders Taiwanese intellectuals’ texts in phases, dated from the Qing Dynasty to the Japanese occupation, using several research methods, such as a reading of juxtaposing literary works and local gazettes, an inquiry for lost, incomplete documents and literary works, a close reading of literary works, and the application of press. Gazette Fu, the Taiwan Fu in the first phase between the early Qing dynasty and the mid Quianlong reign, is derived from the compiled literary gazettes. There were not any written documents before Taiwan was civilized by Qing culture. Most of the compilations were completed during the mid Quianlong reign. Before this reign, most of Gazette Fu works were written by magistrates from Qing mainland. These local gazettes were dedicated to assisting the governance of Taiwan, so they were characterized as a governing tool in addition to their manuscript qualities. In the second stage of Taiwan Fu from the mid Quianlong to the late Qing dynasty, Testing Fu works were prevalent as Qing dynasty recruited its officials from scholars based upon their ability at Rhythmical Fu that revealed in the imperial examination, a tradition from the Tang dynasty. Before Quianlong Year 25 (1755), a number of young scholars from Fujian province and Guangdong claimed to be from Taiwan or pretended to be so by using contacts with some people in Taiwan because there were certain reserved seats for young scholars from Taiwan and they would have a better chance to be selected. During the mid Quianlong, the number of local scholars in Taiwan was rising: more joined the imperial examination, so the Fu education was advanced. Yet, Fu in this time was not ripe enough to develop its own local Fu because the officials in Taiwan had different prospects from their counterparts from Qing mainland and it had been only around a hundred years since intellectuals in Taiwan started to learn the writing of Fu. The Fu education based on the Fu tradition of Tang , the selection principle of writing regarding the imperial examination developed during reigns of three emperors, Kangxi, Yong Zheng and Quianlong, led Fu to be more rigid. Among the three major Taiwanese Fu writers is Cao-Jing, the only one during the Qing dynasty, whose distinctive Fu writing as a life writing goes beyond the selection principle in a harsh era when many intellectuals were conforming their writing to this principle for survival. Media Fu, the third phase of Taiwan Fu during the Japanese occupation (1895-1945), is the propaganda tool as the Japanese press was introduced to Taiwan a year right after the Japanese colonial regime, when the age of post-imperial examinations initiated. In contrast to the Media Fu patronized by Japanese publishers and popular between 1903 and 1930, there were Luan Fu (1896-1915) and Taiwanese Media Fu (1919-1943) sponsored by Taiwanese publishers. Luan Fu makes a great link between past imperial commands and contemporary oracles, a necessary link which serves for the scholars in Taiwan as a way to cope with the impact of a disconnection between personal career and cultural tradition. The Luan Fu before 1915 was a typical writing that demonstrates their commitment to carry out the governing the public under the name of God. After year 1915, the Media Fu in the age of post-imperial examinations revealed a developing writing consciousness as scholars had to decide how to demonstrate their aspirations in their writing submitted to either a Japanese or Taiwanese sponsored publisher. This paper shows the three phases of Taiwan Fu, Gazette Fu, Testing Fu, and Media Fu in turn.

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Kott, Diana. "Die erste Stadt an der äußersten Grenze." Doctoral thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B4C0-7.

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