The Project EuroGeoNames Created by Dutch- and German-speaking Division (DGSD) of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)
Database integration ti
Database source scale
Database updating
Responsible institution
Number of name records
Links in internal data systems
Web-service present
List of exonyms
List of exonyms
Road map proposal
Status pr. 14.10.2005 10 we have identified ifi d 13 organizations i as potential partners which might best fulfill the prerequisites to provide their geographical names data for the project and connect it with the EGN Internet gazetteer service during the project phase. These organizations should be forming the EGN Reference Group and are representing the following countries: Austria (AT), Czech Republic (CZ), Cyprus (CY), Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (DE), Hungary (HU), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Slovenia (SI), Spain (ES). According to the conditions as demanded by the econtentplus Program we have to select 5 to 8 organisations. That will be decided upon at the beginning of the project.
Status t pr. 22 September 2008 After evaluation of all the selected counties, the consortium found that all the 13 countries should participate in the project. Austria (AT), Czech Republic (CZ), Cyprus (CY), Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (DE), Hungary (HU), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Slovenia (SI), Spain (ES).
Status pr. 22 September 2008 2005 Present situation 2008
Datamodell
Datamodell I http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/03_egn/do cuments/080701_d4.2d_uml%20representation _Conceptual%20schema+documentation.pdf
Datamodell II EGNEntryID EGN_uniqueID is a character string which uniquely identifies the gazetteer entry. It must be unique not only within its own gazetteer but across all the gazetteers. The EGN_uniqueID will be composed of the a string element (e.g. country code: DE, NL, etc) + datasource + sequential identifier
EGNFeatureName Datamodell III name is a character string which h is the name of the feature eg Antwerpen language is a character string holding the ISO 639-2 Alpha 3 character language code of the name (without all the sami language and kven language) startdate and enddate define the lifetime of the feature status is a character string holding information about the status of the name. nationaluniqueid holds the national identifier of the feature pronunciationaudio is a pointer to an audio file which plays how the feature name is spoken IPAs holds a representation of the feature name using the International Phonetic Alphabet Gender is an entry in the EGNGenderCode list Plurality is an entry in the EGNPlurality list
Datamodell IV EGNLocation countrycode is a character string holding the ISO 3166-1 1 alpha-2 country identifier region is the EGNEntryId of the 1st level administrative unit in which the feature is located (county) municipality is the EGNEntryId of the city, town or village in which the feature can be found. postcode a character string holding the features post code if available streetaddress the street address of the feature if available
Datamodell V FeatureClassification featuretype is a pointer to an entry in the classification scheme classificationscheme is the name of feature catalogue or dictionary featuredescriptionlocal is a string holding a description of the feature in the local language (Administrative enheter, Enkeltstående vannelementer, fosser ) featuredescriptionenglish is a string holding a description of the feature in English (Administrative units, Hydrographic point features) featuretypelocal is a string holding a pointer to the feature description in the local feature classification scheme (Kommune, Kyst, Foss) NoteThe classification scheme proposed is still under consideration
Datamodell VI MetaData toponymicauthority is a character string holding the name of an official or authoritative agency that authorised the name of the feature eg Flemish Placename Authority dateentered is the date that the feature was first introduced into the gazetteer lastupdateddate is the date of the latest amendment datasource is a character string describing where the gazetteer entry data originated from Geometry GM_Object as defined by ISO 19107. A GM_Object contains the GM_Point, GM_Envelope and GM_Boundary classes for holding point coordinates,bounding box coordinates and polygonal boundaries It also allows for the holding of multiple geometrical representations of an object position GM_Point mbr GM_Envelope boundary GM_Boundary
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