UNGEGN

Working Groups   Working Group on Funding and Training Courses in Toponymy

Training Courses on Toponymy - 2009

Nairobi - Kenya


  • Programme

  • Session 1: : Geographical names as essential element of a national geospatial infrastructure
  • Geographical names: what do they mean to us? Are they important for national geospatial infrastructures and for cultural heritage?
  • Evaluation of current international toponymic database
  • Evaluation of current international names servers
  • How to collect the names information: office preparation, multilingualism
  • Presentation

  • Session 2: Collecting the names
  • Fieldwork
  • Toponymy course: fieldwork
  • Creating a national toponymic database
  • Creating a national toponymic database (Part 1)

  • Session 3: Processing the names
  • Processing the names in the office and organizing a board
  • The role of national names authorities - standardization criteria
  • Managing a national names programme
  • Managing a national names programme

  • Session 4: Outreach
  • Geographical names and education; school world atlases
  • Editorial issues involving geographical names in the production of atlases for the educational and general market
  • Distribution of standardized names: accessibility on the internet
  • Distribution of standardized names
  • Distribution of standardised names: accessibility on the internet

  • Session 5: Interaction
  • Indigenous Minority & Regional Language Group Names
  • Presentation on South AFrican Geographical Names System
  • EuroGeoNames (EGN) - Partners & lessons learned
  • EuroGeoNames (EGN) - An implementation of an European gazetteer service
  • The EuroGeoNames project as a regional European geographical names endeavour cofunded by the European Commission

  • Session 6: African solutions
  • Gazetteer Application

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