"Should be on the shelf of every humanist scholar who creates or manages databases, and every information professional who deals with digital resources for the humanities."
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Stuart E. Dunn,
Literary and Linguistic Computing Advance Access"The book provides a very useful primer for those beginning to design courses in the subject and is likely to become a classic in its field."
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T. D. Wilson,
Information Research"Linda Hill, one of the planet's authorities on the subject of attaching information to place, has produced the definitive work on georeferencing. Organized, written, and illustrated with great clarity, her book is an indispensable reference for anyone seeking to organize and access content by geography."
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Allen Carroll, Chief Cartographer, National Geographic Society
"This book is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on geographic information retrieval, and deserves a place on the shelf of anyone working in GIR or geographically based digital libraries."
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Ray R. Larson, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
"With
Georeferencing, Linda Hill caps a distinguished career with a book that will become a benchmark for future studies of the topic. Within the Semantic Web framework, rigorous georeferencing will necessarily be a first-order service across most domains of knowledge. This is a major contribution to the entire digital-library community."
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Tom Moritz, Associate Director and Chief of Knowledge Management, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles