ИСТИНА

This paper is a presentation of the historic place name locator, an algorithm, which provides a solution for an automated georesolution of place names in historical serial sources. It proposes an approach, which takes historical boundaries into account and can handle variations in writing. This approach can greatly contribute not only to save the content of a source in a Database but access its historical meaning. The algorithm tries to overcome these limitations, it enables automated georesolution of large numbers of place names. This has been achieved by three important main features of the program: A collated gazetteer, a custom search algorithm and the inclusion of the historical context. In the following sections will explain those features in detail. The last section presents a use case, which demonstrates the usability of the algorithm.