Regional Training Program in Toponymy, including Marine Toponymy, Manila Philippines, 19-24 March 2018
1. Objectives
The objective of the Regional Training Program in Toponymy is to support capacity building for members of the UNGEGN Asia South East Division responsible for the standardization 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 with special emphasis on marine toponymy; transfer methods and best practices in geographical names data collection; toponymic database building, the design and development of gazetteers, geographical names servers, practices in cartographic applications and procedures in creating and managing a geographical names bureau.
The course is coordinated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, UNGEGN working group on Training Courses in Toponymy, in collaboration with the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Philippines (NAMRIA).
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Draft Training Programme
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Course Outline
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Resource Guide
5. Course Evaluation: Please complete online questionnaire
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11Yml-gu0FlH8KXWuEtgpghvCR8VPjXusrfHK69mzGeE/edit
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Course Participants List
7. Opening Ceremony
Mr. Peter N. Tiangco, Chairman, Asia South-East Division
Ms. Cecille Blake, UNGEGN Secretariat/UNSD
Ms. Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair, UNGEGN
8. Course Materials
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Day 1
Day 2Terminology and the webcourse
Naming Principles
Standardization of geographical names
National agencies and functioning of a names board
The role of place names in the preservation of Philippine cultural heritage
Status of national standardization of geographical names in the Philippines
Administration of geographical names in Sri Lanka
Status of national geographical names standardization in Viet Nam
Day 3United Nations, UNGEGN, and support for national geographical names standardization programmes
The new UNGEGN
Philippine languages and dialects
Place names and history
Fieldwork
Preparing for fieldwork: what should we collect and what forms should we use
GNSS receiver demonstration
Field Exercise : 21 March 2018, Wednesday
Day 4Field Exercise
Geographical name field sheet
Drone pictures - Picture #1, Picture #2, Picture #3, Picture #4, Picture #5, Picture #6, Picture #7, Picture #8, Picture #9
Day 5Fieldwork II
Processing names from fieldwork
Database creation (theory)
Building the database - hands on experience
Group presentation
Day 6Update of the UNGEGN database of the Philippines
Labelled maps - verification, entering names into a GIS and google maps/earth
Sistem Akuisisi data Toponim Indonesia (SAKTI)
Name servers
Canada : some thoughts on naming undersea features
Marine names development in Southeast Asia
Special aspects of marine naming
Special aspects of underwater topography naming
Naming objects beyond a single sovereignty
Philippine nautical charting program
Names positioning
Dissemination of geographical names
Names dissemination
Indonesia Standardization names
Current status of the standardization of geographical names in Cambodia
Standardization of geographical names in Laos
ASE Division names database
Toponymy and cultural heritage
UNGEGN toponymy course module 19, toponymical planning
9. Closing Ceremony
Mr. Peter N. Tiangco, Administrador NAMRIA
10. Pictures and Video
Field work - collage of pictures Flicker pictures - UNGEGN Training Manila