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geoXwalk – A Gazetteer Server and Service for UK Academia

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003)

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This paper will summarise work undertaken on behalf of the UK academic community to evaluate and develop a gazetteer server and service which will underpin geographic searching within the UK distributed academic information network. It will outline the context and problem domain, report on issues investigated and the findings to date. Lastly, it poses some unresolved questions requiring further research and speculates on possible future directions.

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  1. GeoService Delivery Team, EDINA, University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ, Scotland

    James Reid

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  1. NetLab, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University Libraries, P.O. Box 134, 22100, Lund, Sweden

    Traugott Koch

  2. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,  

    Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

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Reid, J. (2003). geoXwalk – A Gazetteer Server and Service for UK Academia. In: Koch, T., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_35

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