Q. Name of project
EUROGRAPH
Q. Name of project IN ENGLISH
EUROGRAPH
Q. Principal researcher(s)
Gábor SONKOLY and László SEBÕK
Q. Who can/should be contacted now, and how?
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Name: |
Dr. Gábor SONKOLY |
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Postal Address: |
1125 Budapest, Szilágyi E. Fasor 22/C Hungary |
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Q. When did research begin?
1992
Q. Is the project still in existence? If it has ended, when did it end? If it still exists, when is it expected to end?
Yes; On-going project ending in 2003
Q. What institution(s) was the project based in?
Teleki László Institute
Q. How many people were/are employed, and for how long? Were these people recruited specially for the project, or were they already employed by the institution(s)?
1 person for 6 years, 1 person for 3 years.
1 person for 4 years from now on.
Q. How much did the project cost?
14,000,000 Ft / 50,000 $US
Q. Who paid for the project?
Teleki László Institute
Q. If the project is still underway, has all necessary funding to complete the project been raised?
Yes. Otka (Central Scientific Fund)
Q. How easy has it been to raise the money?
So far it was fairly easy. Now it seems to be difficult.
Q. Other than raising the money, what are the biggest problems your project has faced?
We used maps representing different countries, each having different map projection. A common projection would make our programme very costly.
Q. Have there been any pleasant surprises in the course of the project?
Ethnic map of central europe was really created.
Q. How likely is it that further funding might be raised within your country for a collaborative European project?
It seems to be fairly probable.
Q. What geographical area is covered by the project? What is the MODERN legal status of this area? (i.e. is it a nation state, a province of a nation state, etc). If the area currently lacks a legal definition, when was it defined and by whom?
Region: Central Europe.
Q. Does the project aim to: (a) Reconstruct boundaries at a single date; (b) Reconstruct boundaries at a series of dates; (c) Construct a continuous record of changing boundaries over a period?
So far it was the aim. Date:1989-1992. On-going project. westernmost Hungary (partially Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia) for 1910, 1930's, 1960's.
Q. What is the earliest date covered by the project?
1910 or 1900.
Q. What is the latest date covered by the project?
1992.
Q. What systems of units are included?
Community.
Q. What is the project's final product?
Published paper map, CD to be published.
Q. What other publications has your project produced? In particular, please give details of any publications on methodology, and any publications in other languages?
Place-name thesaurus for the Carpathian basin.
Q. What base map is/was used to record the information? When was it created, and by whom? Is it published or in an archive? Answers here will depend on whether the end-product is on paper or electronic.
Digitalised master map by László Sebõk.
Q. What scale was this base map on?
1:500,000.
Q. If the base map was not already in digital form and your project created a digital version, how was this done?
It was created by us.
Q. If your project constructed a record of boundary CHANGES, what sources of information were used? How was this information gathered?
Place-name gazetteers.
Q. What other maps besides the base map were used? When were they created, and by whom? What scale were they on? What boundaries did they show? How reliable are they?
We used administrative maps of surrounding countries (Romania, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, etc.). They show community borders. They have different levels of reliability.
Q. Did your project make any use of DESCRIPTIONS of boundaries? Who created these? Where are they preserved? What problems did you have converting this information into lines on maps?
Only for some uncertain cases.
The questions here must depend on the form of the end product:
Q. Please give full publication details (author(s), title, place of publication, date of publication).
Q. What scale(s) are the published maps on?
1:2,000,000
Q. What boundaries do they show? (i.e. what geographical units)
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Countries: |
Maps: |
Level: |
Censuses: |
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ESTONIA |
1989 |
District |
1989 |
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LATVIA |
1989 |
District |
1989 |
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LITHUANIA |
1989 |
District |
1989 |
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BELARUS |
1989 |
County |
1989 |
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UKRAINE |
1989 |
County |
1989 |
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Subcarpathia |
1989 |
Community |
1910, 1921, 1930, 1941, 1989 |
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MOLDOVA |
1989 |
District |
1989 |
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POLAND |
1946, 1998 |
County |
1946 (!) |
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CZECH REP. |
1991 |
District |
1991 |
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SLOVAKIA |
1910, 1930, 1991 |
Community |
1910, 1921, 1930, 1941, 1991 |
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AUSTRIA |
1991 |
District |
1991 |
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Burgenland |
1991 |
Community |
1910, 1920, 1923, 1934, 1951, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 |
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HUNGARY |
1990 |
Community |
1990 |
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ROMANIA |
1992 |
Community |
1930, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992 |
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Transylvania |
1910, 1930, 1941, 1977, 1992 |
Community |
1850, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1930, 1941, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992 |
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EX-YUGOSLAVIA |
1991 |
District |
1991 |
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Voivodina (Serbia) |
1910, 1921, 1931, 1941, 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 |
Community |
1910, 1921, 1931, 1941, 1948, 1953, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 |
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Croatia |
1991, 1996 |
District |
1910, 1921, 1948, 1981, 1991 |
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Bosnia |
1991, 1996 |
District |
1910, 1921, 1948, 1991 |
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BULGARIA |
1992 |
Community |
1992 |
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ALBANIA |
1989 |
District |
? (!) |
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GREECE |
1951, 1991 |
District |
1951 (!) |
Q. Do they try to show boundary changes over time? If yes, HOW do they show changing boundaries?
No.
Q. What software was used?
An individual software created by László Sáry and László Sebõk at the Teleki László Institute. Demo was given to the organisers.
Q. If your GIS was specially written for you, or heavily tailored for your project, who was responsible for programming? How can they be contacted?
They work at our Instutute.
Q. What were your reasons for your choice of software? If you started again now, would you use the same software?
Economic situation in Hungary. This software is compatible for Mapinfo. We would use an international software now.
Q. Describe the data files making up the final system: Are they a standard GIS file format?
No.
Q. If not, where can detailed documentation be found?
There is not detailed documentation yet.
Q. What map projection is used?
Complex equal-area projection was used to synchronise different map projections coming from different countries.
Q. Assess the overall accuracy of your digital mapping.
2-3 %.
Q. From your existing experience, what methodological recommendations do you have for a larger collaborative project?
The main problem is how to create a common projection.
Q. Whatever the resource your project has actually created, and in the light of your experience with the project, what form of output SHOULD a new project have?
CD-ROM, and traditional publication
Q. What place-names are built-in to your mapping? Is each point/area (node/polygon) labelled with a single name, or is there some system for linking to different versions of names?
At the moment each point has two names : Hungarian and native (if different).
Q. Does the history/linguistic geography of your area raise special problems with naming places?
One of the biggest problem in central and eastern Europe is that, because of the several border-changes and administrative reforms, many settlements possess many names.
Q. Have you any plans to make the place-name information gathered by your project available in any other form?
1. Magyar neve? Határokon túli magyar helységnévszótár (Its Hungarian name? Hungarian place-name register for the surrounding countries) (Arany Lapok Kiadó, 1990, 268 p.)
2. Határokon túli magyar helységnévszótár (Hungarian place-name register for "overborder" territories) (Teleki László Alapítvány, 1997, 353 p.)
Q. What sources have you used to research place- and area-names for use in your system?
Place-name gazetters.
Q. Are there any quite separate projects concerned with the history of place names or of administrative hierarchies in your area? If so, please give details? Are they using computers? Are they aiming to make their results available on-line?
Tárki (www.tarki.hu)
Q. Was the GIS/digital resource constructed for use by its creators ONLY, or was it intended for wider use?
Intended for wider use.
Q. Are you willing to make it available for use by others?
Yes.
Q. Are you willing to make it available for free, or for distribution costs only? If not, what plans have you for commercial distribution?
Non-profit distribution.
Q. Is the resource available NOW? If so, how and from where?
Not yet.
Q. Are there any limitations on access?
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Q. What file format or file formats is the resource available in?
Maps in DXF format. Database in dBase and Excel.
Q. If the resource is available from the researcher/project that created it, what plans are there for distribution after the project ends/the researcher retires?
The owner is Teleki László Institute. The authors' share is 5%.
Q. What plans are there for updating the data files for use with more recent versions of software?
It is being updated within our own system.
Q. What plans are there for updating the data files to include the results of more recent historical research?
1900/1910 boundary changes in westernmost Hungary. Election polls' data from 1990 for the existing data base.
Q. Do you own all intellectual property rights in the resource created by your project? If not, what other rights exist, and who do they belong to? What limitations have they imposed?
The Instutite owns 95%. The authors (László Sebõk and László Sáry) has got limited rights.
Q. How have Intellectual Property Rights issues limited your project?
No.
© Gábor Sonkoly (Budapest, May 2000)