It is our pleasure to invite you to the next Onomastics Online lecture (International Council of Onomastic Sciences):

Onomastics Online
10 April 2025
18:00 (GMT+2)
Microsoft Teams

Speakers:
Dariusz Gierczak: Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany)
Francis Harvey: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany)
Eric Losang: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Germany)
Moderator: Peter Jordan: Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria)

Studying toponym changes. Using gazetteers.net to compare differences in digital repositories.

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Abstract:
In this presentation we describe the concepts and capabilities of the gazetteers.net application and examples of its use. Designed to help researchers study changes in toponyms, the current online application with data from 10 digital repositories for the area of contemporary Poland helps researchers working in this area with toponyms consider and compare multiple place names in a selected area. With its possibilities specialists as well as researchers with questions that tangent onomastic matters have a potent environment to aid their research.
In detail, the gazetteers.net web application enables users to search these digital place name repositories simultaneously, view and compare the data collected from different gazetteers. In addition, the application supports the identification of names that may refer to the same geographical entity, regardless of definitions what constitutes a geographical place or its historical or present administrative status. With the functionality for linking corresponding names from these sources, the application helps facilitate comparisons.
Through examples we consider how the gazetteers.net application helps with assessments of the consistency, accuracy and uncertainty of historical place names. The application supports researcher identification of toponyms from different databases that may refer to the same geographical entity, during different periods and provides a means to create links between corresponding elements in different gazetteers, which can be exported in CSV format files for use in further comparison and analysis.
Future plans for the application will develop capacities for researchers to add their data and improve comparison abilities.
Keywords: Toponyms, Gazetteers, Onomastics, Digital Repositories, Geographical Entities
Link to gazetteers.net: https://gazetteers.net

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