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Historians and other humanists interested in modeling the spatiality of past places should consider the value of digital gazetteers, which are indexes of place names. In contrast to geographic information systems (GIS), gazetteers make it feasible to record uncertainty, textual references, multiple perspectives, and temporal change. Using examples from Chinese history, the author argues that it is feasible to design gazetteers that are consistent with scholarly practices in history and the humanities.
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