Papp, Gábor

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Papp Gábor

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Acta Mirieralogica-Petrographica, Abstract Series 1, Szeged, 2003 A SEARCHABLE DATABASE OF MINERAL LOCALITY NAMES OF THE CARPATHIAN REGION PAPP, G. Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Pf.: 137, H-1431 Budapest, Hungary. E-mail: pappmin@ludens.elte.hu After twenty years of collection practice and science his-tory research one can conclude that the locality names of the Carpathian Region may cause much trouble even to an expe-rienced "aboriginal". For a better orientation in this jungle of names the manuscript Gazetteer of the mineral locality names of the Carpathian Basin (PAPP, 1996) was developed into a searchable database. At present the database contains some 11,800 variants of 4300 locality names of the area. These variants were collected from topographical and de-scriptive mineralogies published since the XVIIIth century. The resulting records (one screen per record) of a given query contain the present name corresponding to the input, the type of the named feature (populated place, stream, min-ing area etc.), the country and the administrative unit where it belongs to and other data (geographical co-ordinates or rela-tive position) helping the localisation of the name. Name of the relevant historical region (if any) and the last official Hungarian name and administrative subdivision is also given (from the 1913 Official Gazetteer of Hungary). An auxiliary record on the same screen lists all spelling variants to be found in the database corresponding to the given entry. The original gazetteer was compiled with the financial support of the OTKA (Hungarian National Research Fund) grant F18007. The editorial work was helped by many local experts. The database was developed with the financial sup-port of the Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungáriáé Foundation with the kind assistance of M. RAJCZY (Dept. of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Musem). Development plans include geographical broadening (to the external areas of the Carpathians) and facilitating of the access (a web searchable version). Reference PAPP, G. (1996). Acta Mineral.-Petrogr. (Szeged), 37 (Suppl.): 89. 84 

A searchable database of mineral locality names of the Carpathian region

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A searchable database of mineral locakity names of the Carpathian region

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