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Most gazetteers with a global scope contain few local names, and gazetteers with a local scope mostly do not contain foreign names. However, people often use both local and foreign place names in a discourse. We describe some of the challenges in mapping local and global gazetteers that serve different needs and hence may have different structure, granularity and coverage. We pay special attention to the problem of identifying duplicate place descriptions in such registries.
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The Norwegian Gazetteer / Sentralt Stedsnavnregister (norwegian only), http://www.statkart.no/standard/sosi/html_34/navn/navn.htm
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer.: Map and Imagery Lab, Davidson Library, Santa Barbara CA, University of California, Santa Barbara (1999), http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer
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Vestavik, Ø., Sølvberg, I.T. (2007). Merging Local and Global Gazetteers. In: Goh, D.HL., Cao, T.H., Sølvberg, I.T., Rasmussen, E. (eds) Asian Digital Libraries. Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers. ICADL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_64
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