BALTIC DIVISION OF UNGEGN
NORDEN DIVISION OF UNGEGN
UNGEGN WORKING GROUP ON TOPONYMIC DATA FILES AND GAZETTEERS
Venue: Estonian Land Board, Mustamäe tee 51, Tallinn
09.00 Transportation from Mere puiestee to the venue.
09.30 Registration
Chair: Peeter Päll
10.00 Opening speeches
10.15 Annette Torensjö (Gävle): New method of field collection of place-names
10.40 Kjetil Ringen (Oslo): Renewing the system for collecting and storing place names in Norway
11.05 Bo Nissen Knudsen (Copenhagen): The Format Puzzle - Overcoming micro- and macrostructural variations in place-name editions in place-name databases
11.30 Coffee break
12.00 Humphrey Southall & Paula Aucott (Portsmouth): Linking places with spaces: examples from the PastPlace project
12.25 Peder Gammeltoft (Copenhagen): Problems of batch-relating onomastic datasets to geo-spatial data – when is the distance too great?
12.50–14.00 Lunch break
Chair: Peder Gammeltoft
14.00 Sulev Õitspuu (Tallinn): Short presentation of Estonian Land Board acitivities, mainly X-GIS
14.25 Vita Strautniece & Sanda Rapa (Rīga): Onomastic data and national geo-spatial infrastructure in Latvia
14.50 Peeter Päll & Indrek Kiissel (Tallinn): Integration of onomastic data into spatial infrastructure in Estonia
15.15 Coffee break
15.45 Keith Briggs (Suffolk): Automated extraction and processing of historical name-forms for onomastic publications
16.10 Dalia Kačinaitė-Vrubliauskienė & Laimutis Bilkis (Vilnius): Geoinformational database of Lithuanian toponyms (http://lvvgdb.lki.lt)
16.35 Mats Wahlberg & Per Vikstrand (Uppsala): The digital place-name archives of The Institute for Language and Folklore, Sweden, and its Estonian collections
17.00 Short summary and closing
17.30 Bus goes back to the city