Incorporating citizens’ participation to ensure the quality of a placename gazetter
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https://doi.org/10.54886/scire.v19i2.4089Keywords:
Geographical names, Place names, Spatial data infrastructure, Gazetteer, Geographic information, Shared responsibility between the Public Sector and citizens, Open Government, Citizen participationAbstract
Achieving a collection of standardized, normalized and official place names have been a constant objective for geographic information managers. Place names are a key component of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), because they provide a unique identification for each geographic feature. Their diffusion and application via gazetteers have been extended over all knowledge areas and have become an invaluable cultural heritage of the referred territorial entity. This paper introduces a place name web search application of Territorial Information System of Aragon (SITAR), which provides a double perspective: on the one hand, it provides the dissemination of place names hosted and compiled by the Government of Aragón (a Spanish autonomous region); and on the other hand, it provides a web tool for citizen participation in order to review and improve quality of compiled place names.
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