Awards
- Winner of <PrizeName>Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.</PrizeName> 2007
- Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. 2007
- Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.</PrizeName> 2007
Overview
An introduction to the principles of unified georeferencing, which uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems. Georeferencing—relating information to geographic location—has been incorporated into today's information systems in various ways. We use online services to map our route from one place to another; science, business, and government increasingly use geographic information systems (GIS) to hold and analyze data. Most georeferenced information searches using today's information systems are done by text query. But text searches for placenames fall short—when, for example, a place is known by several names (or by none). In addition, text searches don't cover all sources of geographic data; maps are traditionally accessed only through special indexes, filing systems, and agency contacts; data from remote sensing images or aerial photography is indexed by geospatial location (mathematical coordinates such as longitude and latitude). In this book, Linda Hill describes the advantages of integrating placename-based and geospatial referencing, introducing an approach to ""unified georeferencing"" that uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems. After a brief overview of relevant material from cognitive psychology on how humans perceive and respond to geographic space, Hill introduces the reader to basic information about geospatial information objects, concepts of geospatial referencing, the role of gazetteer data, the ways in which geospatial referencing has been included in metadata structures, and methods for the implementation of geographic information retrieval (GIR). Georeferencing will be a valuable reference for librarians, archivists, scientific data managers, information managers, designers of online services, and any information professional who deals with place-based information.
Full Product Details
Author: Linda L. Hill (University of California Santa Barbara) ,
William Y. Arms (Cornell University)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9780262083546
ISBN 10: 026208354
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 25 August 2006
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
With Georeferencing, Linda Hill caps a distinguished career with a book that will become a benchmark for future studies of the topic. Within the Semantic Web framework, rigorous georeferencing will necessarily be a first-order service across most domains of knowledge. This is a major contribution to the entire digital-library community. --Tom Moritz, Associate Director and Chief of Knowledge Management, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Author Information
Linda L. Hill is Specialist, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara (retired).
