📅 10 April 2025, 18:00 (GMT+2)
📍 Microsoft Teams | 🆓 Free Registration
The International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) continues its Onomastics Online lecture series with a must-attend event for anyone fascinated by the dynamics of place names and digital humanities.
This session, titled “Studying Toponym Changes. Using Gazetteers.net to Compare Differences in Digital Repositories,” brings together three leading scholars in the field:
- Dariusz Gierczak (Herder Institute, Germany)
- Francis Harvey (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany)
- Eric Losang (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany)
- Moderated by Peter Jordan (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
🔍 What to expect?
The lecture explores the web application gazetteers.net, a tool designed to help researchers analyze historical and contemporary place name changes. The app connects data from 10 major digital gazetteers focused on Poland, enabling simultaneous searches, comparisons, and CSV export of linked names across sources.
This tool is particularly valuable for scholars dealing with historical name variation, regional standardization, or spatial uncertainty in toponymic data. As digital infrastructures evolve, this lecture provides practical insights into managing and analyzing complex geographical naming systems.
🗂️ Keywords: Toponyms, Gazetteers, Onomastics, Digital Repositories, Geographical Entities
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Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding of digital toponymic tools and the evolving landscape of onomastic research!
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