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

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Digital Gazetteers for Cultural Atlases: A Workshop

9 May, Sunday
Morning in Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg. 390

9:00am - 12:00pm

Introductory Remarks
Linda Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara

Latest Developments of the China Historical GIS
Jianxiong Ge, Fudan University

Key Issues in Compiling a Digital Gazetteer of China’s Historical Religious Sites
Merrick Lex Berman, Harvard University

Use of Feature Typing in a Digital Gazetteer: An Exploratory Statistical Analysis
Jun Wang, Peking University
Linda Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara

Creating a Multi-Script Russian Language Gazetteer
Eileen Llona, University of Washington

Gazetteer and Visualizations: Tibet and the Himalayas
David Germano, University of Virginia
David Newman, University of Virginia

Conceptualizing Relationships in a Relational Database of Chinese Buddhism: Nuts and Bolts in the BGIS Project at the University of Arizona
Jiang Wu, University of Arizona

12 - 1:30pm

LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon in Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg. 290

1:30 -
3:00pm
The Role and Position of Gazetteers in a Digital Library Environment
Michael Buckland, University of California, Berkeley

Collaborative, Gazetteer-Based Approaches to the Religious Atlas of China and the Himalayas Project
Ruth Mostern, University of California, Berkeley
Susan Stone, University of California, Berkeley

Design, Implementation, and Integration issues for Gazetteer Projects
Linda Hill, University of California, Santa Barbara

3:00 - 5:00pm Discussion