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ISBN 10: 9211614902

ISBN 13: 978-9211614909 

Author: United Nations 

The present publication is designed primarily to assist countries that do not have an appropriate authority and a specific set of standards for the consistent rendering of their geographical names. The information in the Manual consists of suggestions that should be useful to those intersted in ways to standardize their nation’s geographical names

Table of contents:

Part one.  Organization of a national programme for geographical names standardization

I. Definitions and standardization

II. Names and language 

III. Programme requirements 

IV. Types of national geographical names authorities

V. Beginning a programme 

VI. Standardization procedures 

VII. Office treatment of geographical names 

VIII. Researching name problems 

IX. Field collection of names 

X. Dissemination of official toponyms

Part two.  Some selected readings on geographical names standardization 

I. Role of the United Nations in the standardization of geographical names: some fifty years on

II. Language and the conversion of geographical names

III. Some examples of legislation concerning geographical names authorities

IV. Office processing—storing the data and maintaining the records: some basic thoughts on data fields

V. The social and cultural values of geographical names

VI. Exonyms, also called conventional names

VII. From fieldwork to authorized names: the “owner decides” principle followed in the Netherlands

VIII. Example from the Netherlands of written instructions to surveyors for collecting toponyms in the field

IX. Toponymic guidelines for map and other editors, for international use (from the 1970s to the present)

X. Some selected websites relevant to geographical names standardization

Figures 

I. First training course held by the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, hosted by Bakosurtanal (National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping) in Cisarua, Indonesia, 1982

II. Some examples of different scripts: Russian Cyrillic, Arabic and Chinese 

III. Basic types of national geographical names authorities 

IV. Decision-making on geographical names: a geographical names committee in session 

V. Multiple names for a place or feature shown on a map by parenthesizing one of the names.

VI. Multilingual road sign for a community in the County of Finnmark, northern Norway: Lakselv (Norwegian); Leavdnja (Saami); Lemmijoki (Kvenish/Finnish) 

VII. Working in a geographical names office

VIII. Example of a toponymic database (for Mozambique) developed to enter information from existing card records 

IX. Example from New Zealand of a name submission form for use by the public in proposing names for unnamed features or changes to existing names

X. Steps involved in the field collection of geographical names, in many cases including the use of computers to facilitate the recording or processing of  the names data

XI. Planning for local fieldwork.

XII. Discussion with village leaders prior to collection of local toponyms in Brunei Darussalam 

XIII. Field collection of geographical names in progress: collaboration over provision of locally used names of nearby features (South Africa)

XIV. Recording of geographical names on a base map outline 

XV. Example of a form used in Norway for the field collection of geographical names

XVI. Discussion and verification of the results of fieldwork

XVII. Example of gazetteer content and part of a page layout, as illustrated in the bilingual publication entitled Concise Gazetteer of Canada/Répertoire toponymique concis du Canada 

XVIII. Number of delegates, countries, specialized agencies and intergovernmental and other organizations participating at United Nations Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names

XIX. Participation of countries at the United Nations Conferences on the Standard-ization of Geographical Names, by number of conferences attended

XX. Working groups of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names and the overall structure of United Nations Conferences on the Standardization of Geographical Names, the Group of Experts and the Divisions of the Group of Experts

XXI. Conceptual representation of geographical names knowledge

XXII. Red Square in Moscow 

XXIII. Bilingual map presentation with Frisian minority names first and Dutch majority names in parentheses

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