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WHERE, WHEN, AND WHO

Michael Buckland
UC Berkeley

The importance of gazetteers for the disambiguation of place names was examined at the PNC / ECAI Joint Meeting in Hong Kong in 2001 and significant progress has been made since then. Closely related issues arise in the names of time periods. Designs for "time period directories" analogous to gazetteers will be presented. Gazetteers and time period directories provide important ingredients for the design of biographical dictionaries.