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Fourth day of ICOS 2014 in Glasgow

#ICOS2014 9AM Don't miss @ElianCarsenat and @eug1979 session on applying socioonomastics to measure cultural biases in medical research

— NamSor #Onomastics (@NamSor_com) August 28, 2014

RT @NamSor_com: #Scottish names in the Great War CC #ICOS2014 @FencingOsprey http://t.co/8BiKV6j5R5 pic.twitter.com/Y3hvrqFpu9

— FamNwörterbuch (@DFDmainz) August 28, 2014

.@NamSor_com and @eug1979 discussing cultural biases in medical research, uncovered using names #ICOS2014 pic.twitter.com/IQ2irzxZlP

— Onomastics.co.uk (@onomastics_couk) August 28, 2014

Marje Joalaid on Balto-Finnic personal name systems. #ICOS2014 @GlasgowUni pic.twitter.com/Og2hU4XFRr

— Terhi Ainiala (@ainiala) August 28, 2014

#ICOS2014 Looking forward to Lisa Radding presentation on #Marketing software & predicting #ethnicity with onomastics

— NamSor #Onomastics (@NamSor_com) August 28, 2014

#ICOS2014 Fascinating presentation by Emilia Aldrin on perception by teachers of ethnically steraotyped names & grading in #Sweden

— NamSor #Onomastics (@NamSor_com) August 28, 2014

Great to see so many PG researchers on today's programme #ICOS2014 #onomastics

— Cognitive Toponymy (@CogTopProject) August 28, 2014

#ICOS2014 @DigitalOnomast 'How can we broaden the appeal of onomastics? By going #digital!' CC @eug1979 @onomastics_couk @place_names

— NamSor #Onomastics (@NamSor_com) August 28, 2014

The future of Onomastics discussed in the Keynote lecture by Peter Gammeltoft @DigitalOnomast #ICOS2014 pic.twitter.com/HJLBGrj7V2

— Cognitive Toponymy (@CogTopProject) August 28, 2014

Onomastics: go digital! Peder Gammeltoft on his keynote how we could broaden the appeal of onomastics. #ICOS2014 pic.twitter.com/SxlrRWWACe

— Terhi Ainiala (@ainiala) August 28, 2014

We must "go digital"! #ICOS2014 #onomastics

— Cognitive Toponymy (@CogTopProject) August 28, 2014

150,000 FREE access online names! Fantastic Onomastic resource - Digdag @uni_copenhagen @DigitalOnomast #ICOS2014

— Alison Burns (@Alibaliebee) August 28, 2014

Peder Gammeltoft (@DigitalOnomast) in final #ICOS2014 keynote, on using technology to broaden appeal of onomastics pic.twitter.com/Na3UoxSbQk

— Onomastics.co.uk (@onomastics_couk) August 28, 2014

RT @cogtopproject: Time for the keynote-Onomastics for all: How can new technology help broaden the appeal of name research? #ICOS2014

— Mikel Belasko (@MikelBelasko) August 28, 2014

Lessons on digital engagement from @DigitalOnomast at #ICOS2014 pic.twitter.com/8kEQt5eZGl

— Mapping Metaphor (@MappingMetaphor) August 28, 2014

"Spice it up with some Onomastic data" - good advice @DigitalOnomast #ICOS2014 #onomastics

— Alison Burns (@Alibaliebee) August 28, 2014

@Alibaliebee speaking about field names in Aberdeenshire at #ICOS2014 pic.twitter.com/6JJnhzctAc

— Ellen Bramwell (@EllenBramwell) August 28, 2014

What’s in a Twitter name?

What’s in a Twitter name or handle? Anything: real names, company names, fancy names, pictograms, … the amount of information produced through Twitter is enormous, but it’s possible to filter this ‘bigdata’ in a way to make sense of it. Elian Carsenat created geographic maps of e-Diasporas, by recognizing the Twitter names of geotagged tweets: Irish, Swedish, Russian, etc. He called this Twitter GEOnomastics, borrowing a term from your obedient servant Dr. Evgeny Shokhenmayer (2010).

How does it work? The software accurately recognizes that ‘NamSor Applied Onomastics’ (@NomTri) is probably a trade mark or a company name, whereas ‘Elian Carsenat’ (@ElianCarsenat) is probably a personal name – and most likely a French name. Fancy names are also recognized and filtered out.

The author sees wide applications of such maps. When Captain James Cook explored the seas in the 18th century, having accurate maps could mean life or death for a ship and its crew. Working out latitude had been known for centuries, but measuring longitude was still tricky and inaccurate. In today’s digital world, he sees latitude as ‘recognizing the semantics’ in a message expressed in a particular language and longitude as ‘recognizing the culture’ of the target audience. He's full of curiosity on how and to whom this map can be useful, possibly Twitter itself. Elian Carsenat is going from Paris to Dublin in two weeks to find out : he aspires to meet people at Twitter European Headquarters. Twitter just issued its IPO but is also not clear how to make its money.

Read his next posts to discover more Twitter GEOnomastics maps showing Irish, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Swedish, Italian, Dutch e-Diasporas (or cultural influence).

NB. The maps are currently interactive, so you can zoom in and out of a particular territory, however this may be shut down in a month or two.

http://cdb.io/1beWaVB

If you are interested in the Twitter onomastic geotagging, read further here:

What’s in a Twitter name? A glance at the Irish digital Diaspora | NameSorts

http://onomastics.co.uk/whats-in-a-twitter-name/

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