Congress of Cultural Atlases: The Human Record
May 7-10, 2004
University of California, Berkeley

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Digital Gazetteers for Cultural Atlases: Abstracts
Sunday, May 9, 2004

 

“The Role and Position of Gazetteers in a Digital Library Environment”
Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley

Gazetteers constitute one component in the broader infrastructure needed to support scholarship, along with dictionaries, biographical dictionaries, and other specialized tools, traditionally associated with
a library's reference collection. How this infrastructure can be constructed in a digital environment and how gazetteers can play their role will be described.