Geoparsing, the task of extracting toponyms from texts and associating them with
geographic locations, has witnessed remarkable progress over the past years. However …

One of the biggest challenges in the transition to open science is making data interoperable.
Ideally, existing schemas and vocabularies are (re-) used to describe data, but these are …

This paper aims to present and discuss the method of geocoding historical place names
from historic maps that cannot be georeferenced in the GIS environment. This concerns …

Purpose Digital humanities research platform for biographies of Malaysia personalities
(DHRP-BMP) was collaboratively developed by the Research Center for Chinese Cultural …

Gazetteers, as compilation of named places, are central resources on the Web of data, as
they provide a common ground to link and integrate many textual or structured resources on …

Abstract Linked-Data-Technologien können für die Modellierung und Darstellung der
Komplexität und Nuancen geisteswissenschaftlicher Daten von großem Nutzen sein und …

Changes in place names offer insight into regions' culture, politics, and geographical
characteristics. This paper proposes an automatic approach to generate time-sequenced …

The writings of one ancient civilization often overlap in time and space with others. Many of
these sources comprise unstructured text in ancient languages, causing scholars studying …

This paper focuses on Digital Libraries that geovisualize cultural data, highlighting the need
to define them as a separate category termed “Cultural Mapping Libraries”, based on the …

Gazetteers (dictionaries of place names, their classifications, and locations) are fundamental
to GIS systems. Historical gazetteers especially are an important resource for aggregating …