D17: Legal status of names
 
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Documents and literature

 

Available documents:
  • D17-01: Päll, P. (2002). Legal status of names. Training Course on Toponymy. Enschede, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin. 11 August - 6 September 2002. Compiled and edited by Ferjan Ormeling, K. Hans Stabe and Jörn Sievers Mitteilungen des Bundesamtes für Kartographie und Geodäsie. Band 28. Verlag des Bundesamtes für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp 91-94.

Literature:
  • Norwegian Toponymic Guidelines for Map and Other Editors, for International Use, submitted at the Ninth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in New York 21-30 August 2007 as document E/CONF.98/124/Add.1

  • Toponymic Guidelines for Map Editors and Other Editors, For International Use - Finland, submitted to the 22nd Session of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names in New York 20-29 April 2004 as Working Paper No. 49
  • Naftali Kadmon (2000) Toponymy, the lore laws and language of geographical
    names. This contains a part on: toponyms in a Court of Law; The legal
    status of geographical names, and on: The legal-administrative status of
    toponyms.

  • Ludger Müller-Wille (2004) "Toponymies of lesser-used languages in the
    North: Issues of socio-linguistic conditions among Inuit and Sámi"
    Études/Inuit/Studies, vol. 28, n° 2, 2004, p. 73-88 (URL).

  • Oskari Rovamo - MONOPOLISING NAMES? The Protection of Geographical Indications in the European Community. Helsinki University, 2006 (URL).

  • William C. Wonders (1987) Native claims and place names in Canada's western Arctic. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies VII, 1 (1987):111-120 (URL).


Online resources:


The United Nations sell the following publications which also can be downloaded from the UNGEGN website:

  • Glossary of Terms for the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York 2002) / pdf

  • Manual for the national standardization of geographical names (UN - Ecosoc, New York, 2006   ST/ESA/STAT/SERM/88 Sales No. E.06.XVII.7 ISBN 92-1-161490-2, available in the 6 UN languages) / pdf

  • Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names (New York, 2007) / pdf

  • Resolutions adopted at the ten UN Conferences on the standardization of geographical names (English (pdf) / French (pdf)

 

 
 
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