Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) Export

@book{citeulike:4686747, abstract = {**Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.** 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. \_Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing series\_}, author = {Hill, Linda L.}, citeulike-article-id = {4686747}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&path=ASIN/0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&path=ASIN/0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262512521/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0262512521}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=0262512521&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-9 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/0262512521}, day = {31}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {0262512521}, keywords = {geospatial, gis, information, lib-musil, reference, spatial, systems}, month = {March}, posted-at = {2009-08-12 10:34:02}, priority = {2}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, title = {Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/0262512521}, year = {2009} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4686747 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4686747 N2 - **Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.** 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. _Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing series_ SN - 0262512521 TI - Georeferencing: The Geographic Associations of Information (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) PB - The MIT Press KW - geospatial KW - gis KW - information KW - lib-musil KW - reference KW - spatial KW - systems AU - Hill, Linda PY - 2009/03/31/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0262512521 ER -