Toponymy Training Course, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15-19 May 2017
1. Objectives
- Day 1
UNSD Opening Address(revised) - Naming Principles
- Terminology and the webcourse
- Terminology and the UNGEGN webcourse
- Standardization of geographical names and raising awareness of its advantages
- National agencies and functioning of a names board
- Standardization of Statistical Area Names
- Day 2
- Managing a national names programme
- United Nations, UNGEGN, and support for national geographical names standardization programmes
- Visão Toponímica Sobre O Estado Do Rio De Janeiro - Brasil
- Preparing for fieldwork: what should we collect and what forms should we use?
- Collection of Geographical Names in Brazil
- Description of the Fieldwork Area
- Day 3 - Field Work
- Fieldwork
- Day 4
- Processing names from fieldwork
- Decision-making of the Board
- Database creation (theory)
- Building the database – hands on experience
- Day 5
- Labelled Maps-Verification, entering names into a GIS and Google Maps/Earth
- Names Positioning
- Dissemination of geographical names
- Administration of Geogrhical Names in Uruguay
- Names Servers
- Atlases and databases
- Preservation of place names as part of our cultural and historical heritage
- Preserving cultural heritage through geographical names
The objective of the Toponymy training course is to support capacity building for members of the UNGEGN Portuguese-speaking and Latin America Divisions responsible for the standardisation of geographical names. The course is aimed at increasing the knowledge and understanding of the principles and concepts of geographical naming and the standardization of a country’s toponyms; transfer methods and best practices in geographical names data collection; toponymic database building, the design and development of gazetteers, geographical names servers and exposure to and practices in cartographic applications.
The course is coordinated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, UNGEGN in collaboration with the Brazilian Institute of Geography and History, Reference Centre for Geographical Names.
2. Course Outline
3. Resource Guide to Brazil and Training Course
4. Course Participants List
5. Course Material
6. Course Report
7. Photo gallery (click each photo to enlarge)
