Location Gazetteer

A Location Gazetteer is a term gazetteer where the entity database is a location entity database.

• Context:
  • It can contain Data Attributes on:
    • geographical makeup of a country, region, or continent.
    • social statistics, such as population, GDP, and literacy rate.
    • physical features, such as mountains, waterways, or roads.
    • dimensions of physical features
  • It can be captured in a Toponym Record Set, particularly if it is machine readable.
• Example(s):
  • (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer#List_of_gazetteers
• See: Reference Work, Data-Driven NER Task, Gazetteer-based Term Recognition, Term Gazetteer Construction Task.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gazetteer
  • S: (n) gazetteer (a journalist who writes for a gazette)
  • S: (n) gazetteer (a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas))
• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer
  • A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names (See: toponomy), used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas. [1] It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region, or continent as well as the social statistics and physical features, such as mountains, waterways, or roads. Examples of information you would find include the location of places, dimensions of physical features, population, GDP, literacy rate, etc. This information is generally divided into overhead topics with entries listed in alphabetical order.
  • Gazetteers of ancient Greece existed since the Hellenistic era. The first known gazetteer of China appeared by the 1st century, and with the age of print media in China by the 9th century, the Chinese gentry became invested in producing gazetteers for their local areas as a source of information as well as local pride. Although existent only in fragments, the geographer Stephanus of Byzantium wrote a geographical dictionary in the 6th century which influenced later European compilers of gazetteers by the 16th century. Modern gazetteers can be found in reference sections of most libraries as well as on the Web.
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazetteer
  • Noun
    • 1. A geographic dictionary or encyclopedia, sometimes found as an index to an atlas.

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