Seitenhistorie

(Status: 23-04-2020)

• promote and

• maintain liaison with international standardization bodies like the Unicode Consortium regarding digital text encoding in the context of geographical names, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with reference to the development of exchange standards for toponymic information and to web (gazetteer) services for the provision of toponymic information through the Internet;

• maintain liaison with the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG) in relation to UN developments and requirements;

• provide consultancy and technical advice to the UN-GGIM activities related to the fundamental data theme ‘Geographical Names’

• promote and support the geographical names database of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN database);

• promote, complement and support the “UNECA Africa GeoNyms database/gazetteer initiative";

• promote and

  provide consultancy and technical advice to national standardization programs on innovation and

  to toponymic training courses including

  research in names collection, management and dissemination as well as to training courses. This comprises the development of multipurpose

  toponymic

  database solutions in the context of spatial data infrastructures

  . This comprises issues like the discussion of appropriate definitions for gazetteers and data types and of general feature types/categories for a

  for national, regional and global use;

• organize workshops in conjunction with UNGEGN Sessions or other UN Conferences with "geo-dimension", focusing on topics like data collection, categorization and modeling, database applications or lessons learned through national and international geographical names programs or projects, and, as required, provide presentations on such topics at international events;
• promote and support the UNGEGN Sessions and upcoming UNCSGN;recommend content and structure of nationally produced authoritative gazetteers and toponymic data files in particular making use of the Internet.geographical names database of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN database);

• maintain liaison with international standardization bodies like the Unicode Consortium regarding digital text encoding in the context of geographical names, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with reference to the development of exchange standards for geographical names information and to web (gazetteer) services for the provision of geographical names information through the Internet;

• provide consultancy and technical advice to the UN-GGIM activities related to the fundamental data theme ‘Geographical Names’ as well as to the support of geographical names data to the Agenda 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) monitoring;  

• examine processes and recommend best practice for the exploitation and validation of volunteered geographic information and crowd Information, crowd sourced data and Linked Open Data (LOD) as part of national toponymic standardization workgeographical names standardization work;
  

• promote, complement and support the “UNECA Africa GeoNyms database/gazetteer initiative";

• promote the use of persistent unique identifiers as crucial element of consistent names data files and for, amongst others, Linked Open Data.