eurogeonames - border crossing features
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Border Crossing Features within the EuroGeoNames names service
Roman Stani-Fertl
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Contents
1. What is a border crossing feature?2. Structure of the EuroGeoNames
names service3. Linkage of variant name forms to a
geographic feature 4. The example of River Drava / Drau /
Dráva
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What is a border crossing feature?
• Feature crossing a country borderresults in more than one dataset in the EGN-CS
• Feature crossing a language border• horizontal – language communities are territorially separated (e.g. Belgium)• vertical– more than one language community is in control over that feature (e.g.
Brussels)
may result in more than one name form
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name variant XB_fde
name variant XC_ghi
name variant XA_def
name variant XA_efd
Consequences of border crossing features
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border crossing feature
dataset country XB
dataset country XA
dataset country XC
name variant abc
name variant bca
name variant cba
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The structure of the EuroGeoNames names service
• EGN: EuroGeoNames• EVN-DB: Database of exonyms and other variant names
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AT - Local
database
DE - Local
database
CZ - Local
database
NL - Local
database
... - Local database
EE - Local
database
EGN – Central Service
EVN-DB UserReference Application
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name variant XX_abc
name variant XX_bcd
name variant XX_abc
E V N – D B
Border Crossing Features and Toponyms
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data set
country XA
data set
country XB
data set
country XC
endonym XA_def
endonym XA_efd
endonym XB_fde
endonym XC_ghi
border crossing feature
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Border Crossing Features and Toponyms
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data set
country XA
data set
country XB
data set
country XC
endonym XA_def
endonym XA_efd
endonym XB_fde
endonym XC_ghi
border crossing feature
name variant XX_abc
name variant XX_bcd
name variant XX_abc
E V N – D B
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The river Drava as an example
• for a country border• and language border
crossing feature
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Drava
Drava
Drava
Dráva
Drau (Drava)
Drave – (fre.)
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The river Drava as an example
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Features information
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Linkage of exonyms with features
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Summary
Two types of border crossing features
• result in multiple datasets for one specific geographical feature• linked by unique identifiers • either by NMCAs or in the database of exonyms and other variant
names.
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