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2016
Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. 8/8/2016. Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, Pp. 266. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Placing Names discusses the evolution and construction of gazetteers and how they can be used to model our conceptions of historical places,  as well as how those places change over time.

This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

2012
Akiyuki Kawasaki, Merrick Lex Berman, and Wendy Guan. 4/2012. “The growing role of web-based geospatial technology in disaster response and support.” Disasters, 37, 2. Publisher's VersionAbstract
This paper examines changes in disaster response and relief efforts and recent web‐based geospatial technological developments through an evaluation of the experiences of the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, of the Sichuan (2008) and Haiti (2010) earthquake responses. 
2005
Merrick Lex Berman. 2005. “Boundaries or Networks in Historical GIS: Concepts of Measuring Space and Administrative Geography in Chinese History.” Historical Geography, 33. Publisher's VersionAbstract
This paper discusses the specific issues raised by reconstruction historical administrative geographies, arguing that evidence for administrative boundaries in the remote past is not sufficient.  Instead, the author suggests that we construct networks of relationships between known point locations.