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Participants | Working Group on Geographical Names Data Management |
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Subtask Action Items | Action Item Task Team | Caring Colleague | Proposed Approach | Proposed Outcome/Deliverables | |
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Provide consultancy to the developments related to the UNGEGN database, UNECA “UNECA Africa GeoNyms database/gazetteer initiative”, the INSPIRE initiative, the UN and European gazetteer projects, the GIS web-based World Geonames Application and other projects of developing countries | 1-i-1 | Chair | |||
Evaluate and assess exchange standards for geographical names information and for web services (gazetteer, feature and mapping) for the provision of geographical names information (comprising the review of Part II of the UNGEGN Technical Reference Manual) | 1-i-2 | Task Team of WG members: Roman Stani-Fertl, Peder Gammeltoft Teemu Leskinen, Peeter Päll
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Present geographical names data management topics at national and international conferences organized in the fields of geospatial information management | 1-i-3 | Chair and other WG members | |||
Promote, agree and disseminate romanization systems for national and global use | 1-i-4 | Catherine Cheetham | |||
Promote and support the establishment of an authoritative international database/gazetteer of geographical names to be disseminated to the public through UNGEGN | 1-i-5 | Task Team of WG members: Chair, Susan Birtles, Victoria Reeh, Jasper Hogerwerf, Kristina Kwiatkowski
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Examine processes and recommend good practice
| 1-ii-6 | Task Team(s) of WG members:
Re 1) Jasper Hogerwerf, Ingvil Nordland, Teemu Leskinen, Aju Pudra, Kristina Kwiatkowski, Young-Hoon Kim
Re 2) Susan Birtles, Jasper Hogerwerf, Ingvil Nordland, Peder Gammeltoft, Aji Pudra, Young-Hoon Kim
Re 3) Chair, Teemu Leskinnen, Kristina Kwiatkowski, | |||
Promote the use of the online discussion forum (Wiki) e.g.
| 1-ii-7 | Wiki moderators:
Catherine Cheetham, Vita Strautniece, Teemu Leskinnen, Susan Birtles, Chair | |||
Monitor the availability of free and easily-accessible authorized digital geographical names data as it is seen as a key driver in encouraging the use of nationally-standardized geographical names | 1-iii-8 | Marija Brnot, Victoria Reeh | |||
Organize workshops and on innovative, research and/or technical issues/topics like e.g. volunteered geographic information, crowd sourced data, Linked Open Data or speech technology | 1-iii-9 | Chair, Susan Birtles and others (Evelyn Wandl-Vogt) | |||
Evaluate and assess innovative methods to be used for Romanization, e.g. machine transliteration | 1-iii-10 | Catherine Cheetham | |||
Interaction with UN-GGIM to be continuously reviewed and evaluated for upgrading the activity level in relation to over-arching activities, such as addressing the SDGs | 2-i-2 | Chair, Catherine Cheetham
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Work with UNECA to establish stronger and more permanent ties aimed to:
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Continue to communicate and liaise with existing groups and explore further effective ways of cooperation with: ICA, ICOS, IGU, IHO, ISO, OGC, PAIGH, SCAR (SCAGI), Unicode Consortium | 2-ii-6 | Chair (for ISO, OGC), Catherine Cheetham (for UNICODE) (Evelyn Wandl-Vogt) and others to contribute)
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Review the current versions of UNGEGN publications, establish a plan to revise or add to them, and implement it | 3-ii-2 | Chair | |||
Cooperate with academia, so that geographical name datasets collected (by academics, for example, historical or linguistic variants) are geo-referenced and linked to standardized datasets | 4-ii-9 | Chair |
Next steps/tasks before the meetings starts: