Transonymization as Revitalization: Old Toponyms of Split

Towards semi-automatic annotation of toponyms on old maps

Present-day map digitization methods produce data that is semantically opaque; that is to a machine, a digitized map is merely a collection of bits and bytes. The area it depicts, the places it mentions, any text contained within legends or written on its margins remain unknown unless a human appraises the image and manually adds this information to its metadata. This problem is especially seve...

Disambiguating Toponyms in News

This research is aimed at the problem of disambiguating toponyms (place names) in terms of a classification derived by merging information from two publicly available gazetteers. To establish the difficulty of the problem, we measured the degree of ambiguity, with respect to a gazetteer, for toponyms in news. We found that 67.82% of the toponyms found in a corpus that were ambiguous in a gazett...

Joik as the Golden Thread of Sami Revitalization

Land Revitalization

Dutch Historical Toponyms in the Semantic Web

In early 2013, the website gemeentegeschiedenis.nl was launched. The website presents a uniquely identifiable web page for every municipality in the Netherlands since 1812. Each of these web pages provides internal relations to official spelling alternatives of their names, to toponyms of settlements within these municipalities, between former and current municipalities, and presents maps of al...