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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