Spatial Focus or Onomastic Focus? An Unsolved Problem in Digital Onomastics
As with other research, an important part of place-name research is how to localize one’s object of study. Traditionally, place-name localization has been indirect, stated in relation to in which administrative unit the place name was situated. With the so-called spatial turn, geolocation and place-...
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
2025
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| Online adgang: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159808 |
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| Summary: | As with other research, an important part of place-name research is how to localize one’s object of study. Traditionally, place-name localization has been indirect, stated in relation to in which administrative unit the place name was situated. With the so-called spatial turn, geolocation and place-name geodata have started to play an even more significant role in digital onomastics.
A tacit premise of geolocation is that it is feature oriented, regardless of whether it is point, multi-point, line or polygon oriented. This is principally at odds with the nature of place names, which have an in-built multi-referentiality. No one has focused on this theoretical problem so far, although, to the advanced user of geolocation-oriented digital onomastics, this is a constantly recurring problem.
The present paper explores this problem and proposes a solution to it by introducing the notion of the Unique Place-Name Concept to geolocated place-name databases. This addition will have the added bonus of enabling quick comparisons among multiple features with the same name origin and thus strengthening place-name standardization, making it easier to utilize geodata onomastically, and preventing the doubling of data, among other benefits. |
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