Workshop Report Digital Gazetteers: Integration into Distributed Digital Library Services ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Portland, Oregon July 18, 2002 By Linda Hill Alexandria Digital Library Project University of California, Santa Barbara, lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu A workshop on Digital Gazetteers: Integration into Distributed Digital Library Services was held on July 18, 2002 in conjunction with the ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Portland, Oregon This workshop was sponsored by the . Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) group as the 5th in their workshop series: see http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/. The 38 participants represented a worldwide community of researchers, implementers, and librarians for whom gazetteers are important components of information systems. These included those from cultural history, biology and environmental data collections, library cooperative projects, digital library research, information service companies, and state and national projects related to gazetteers. Participants came from Germany, Taiwan, Norway, Canada, and the United Kingdom as well as the United States. Presentation slides from the workshop are available on the NKOS website through the link to the workshop. Linda Hill, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), presented the basic elements of a content standard for gazetteer data, pointing out that gazetteers are a type of reference
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