Documentation for the meeting

• • Concept Note
  • Meeting Program (updated)
  • List of Participants

Joint Meeting Norden & Dutch- and German-speaking Division, 10 October

• • Meeting Agenda
  • Revisions of the Norwegian place-name legislation (Berit Sandnes)
  • Nammejouwing yn Fryslân - Names in Fryslân (Arjen Versloot)

Symposium session 1, 11 October

• • Why names are changing (Nico Bakker)
  • Commercialization of places and place names: A search for UNGEGN's role (Sungjae Choo)
  • Toponymic expert knowledge and the school atlas: The example of the Bosatlas (Tjeerd Tichelaar)
  • Methodology of collecting geographical names in Greenland (Lisathe Møller Kruse)
  • Problems in the standardization of natural feature names and the utilization of expert knowledge in the production of maps (Zane Cekula)

Symposium session 2, 11 October

• • Preserving inherited toponyms - conception of the laity vs. the experts (Ulla Onkamo)
  • Divergence and Convergence within Standardizing Danish Place-Names
    • Part 1 (Rikke Steenholt Olesen)
    • Part 2 - The case of Kramnitse / Kramnitze (Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen)
  • Standardization of geographical names in the Netherlands (Ferjan Ormeling)
    • Presentation
    • Article

Symposium session 3, 11 October

• • The importance of expert knowledge in geographical names for the determination and processing of bilingual place names in Brussels (Jeanne Henrion)
  • The role of place names in revitalizing Kven language (Katriina Pedersen)
  • Exonyms and endonyms in historical contact regions - standardization without levelling: The case of Eastern Belgium (Leo Wintgens)
    • Presentation
    • Article

Symposium session 4, 12 October

• • Support of geographical names data files and gazetteers to UN-GGIM activities and 2030 Agenda (Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu & Catherine Cheetham)
  • Developments of GeoLocator and Regional Gazetteer in ELS/OpenELS
    • Developments of GeoLocator and Regional Gazetteer (Saulius Urbanas)
    • EuroRegionalMap, OpenELS Regional Gazetteer, and Exonyms (Roman Stani-Fertl)

Meeting Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers, 12 October

• • Meeting Agenda
  • Meeting Outline
  • Toponym gazetteer system of our country's new address system of the Republic of Korea (Young-Hoon Kim)
  • Merging standardized and non-standardized gazetteers (Gerhard Rampl)

Symposium session 5, 12 October

• • Place name policy, official use of Sámi toponymy and standardization (Kaisa Rautio Helander)

Joint Meeting Working Group on Evaluation and Publication & Working Group on Publicity and Funding

• • Meeting Agenda
  • Meeting Outline