Crowdsourcing of Popular Toponyms: How to Collect and Preserve Toponyms in Spoken Use

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/5/303/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/5/303/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10050303" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijgi10050303</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Crowdsourcing of Popular Toponyms: How to Collect and Preserve Toponyms in Spoken Use

Original language description

The article presents a process of collecting unstandardized toponyms, in particular urban-onyms (place names denoting objects located in the cadastre of the city), within the territory of two municipalities in the Czech Republic. The collecting process was performed in two phases by crowdsourcing, using a web map application created especially for this purpose. In the first phase (October 2019–September 2020) it was collecting as many unstandardized toponyms as possible. In the second phase (October 2020–January 2021) we focused on the degree of the knowledge of these toponyms among the population living within the studied territory. The interest on the side of the general public was surprising in both phases. In the first phase, over five hundred respondents sub-mitted more than two and a half thousand place names, most of them during the first two weeks. More than nine hundred respondents actively participated in the second phase, thanks to which we received an average of 200 responses for each place name. As regards the motivation of the public, it was most often altruism, patriotism, and curiosity that stimulated them; in the second phase, the element of gamification, embedded into the map application, also had a positive effect. The collected data can be used, for instance, in the activities of local authorities in the process of standardization of place names or as reference data for maps used within the integrated rescue system.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

ISSN

2220-9964

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000653982700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106499437