Workshops / Meetings

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EGN Closing Workshop of the EuroGeoNames Consortium & Reference Group jointly with the Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers of the UNGEGN, took place on Thursday 05 February 2009, Brussels, Belgium. You can read more about it here.

Workshops

• Workshop 1: 1^st Workshop of the EGN Consortium and the EGN Reference Group (23 - 24 Oct '06)
  • GN and SDI / Grünreich
  • Concept of EGN / Zaccheddu
  • GI market / Buziek
  • All countries summary / Brnot & Wurzer
  • All countries summary presentation/ Brnot & Wurzer
  • Synopsis presentation/ Brnot & Wurzer
  • Synopsis document/ Brnot & Wurzer
  • Key technical issues / Corbett
  • Exchange of ideas User-business requirements / Ormeling
  • Security Issues / Mordhorst
  • Minutes of Workshop 1

• Workshop 2: Workshop on user/business requirements (15 Jan '07)
• Programme / Ormeling
• Workshop preparation presentation / Ormeling
• Gazetteer use cases / Reid
• How geonames are handled at Bookings / Amersfoort
• Introduction to workshop 2 / Ormeling
• Market analyses / Ulrich
• Information model / Ormeling
• Name changes in Dutch names files / Storm
• Geonames at Teleatlas / van Essen
• Geonames requirements for Reference atlases / Tichelaar
• Commercial applications / Börner
• Names changes in Belgium / van Doren
• User groups, needs and wants / Vijverberg
• Minutes of Workshop 2

• Workshop 3: 2^nd Workshop of the EGN Consortium and the EGN Reference Group - jointly with UNGEGN WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers (5 - 6 Mar '07)
  • Opening / Sievers
  • Executive summary Report User/Business requirements / Ormeling
  • Outcome from the WS on User/Business requirements / Ormeling
  • Architectural Model Overview / Blankert
  • Security issues / Schneider
  • Conceptual Data Model / Reid
  • Phased implementation / Sievers
  • Final discussion and outcome / Buziek
  • Minutes of Workshop 3
     
• Workshop 4: Workshop on Business models (4 Jun '07)
  • Agenda
  • Goods, services, actors / Schneider
  • Conceptual framework / Schneider
  • Business model BKG / Zaccheddu
  • Business model ESRI / Lessing
  • EGN Business model Proposal / Ulrich
  • Minutes of Workshop 4

• Workshop 5: 3^rd Workshop of the EGN Consortium and the EGN Reference Group - Business Models & Web Services implementing issues (14 - 15 Nov '07)
  • Agenda
  • Business and pricing model & access control / Ulrich
  • INSPIRE activity / Zaccheddu
  • Conceptual Data Schema / Reid
  • Proposal of Feature Type Classification / Alcazár
  • Technical progress / Blankert & Knibbe
  • Web services architecture / Blankert & Knibbe
  • Implementing single inquiries and WFS / Blankert & Knibbe
  • Variant Names and Exonyms Database / Stani-Fertl
  • Requirements for an EGN Local Service / Blankert & Knibbe
  • Next steps / Zaccheddu
  • Minutes of Workshop 5 (Part 1)
  • Minutes of Workshop 5 (Part 2)
     
• Workshop 6: 4^th Workshop of the EGN Consortium and the EGN Reference Group with main focus on the EGN web services implementation - jointly with UNGEGN WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers (03 Jun '08)
  • Agenda
  • Opening / Zaccheddu
  • Summary of actions since the last EGN workshop / Zaccheddu
  • INSPIRE Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Geographical Names / Illert
  • EGN Services Architecture / Knibbe
  • EGN –Access Control / Börner
  • Implementing EGN infrastructure / Knibbe
  • EGN -local service First attempt / Mladenovic
  • Reference Application / Schach
  • EGN ArcGIS Extension / Börner
  • Online editing service EVN-DB / Stani-Fertl
  • Next Steps / Zaccheddu
  • Final discussion and Closing / Afflerbach & Zaccheddu
  • Minutes of Workshop 6
     
• Workshop 7: Closing Workshop of the EGN Consortium and the EGN Reference Group - jointly with UNGEGN WG on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers (05 Feb '09)
  • Agenda
  • Welcome / Fraisse
  • Opening speech / Grünreich
  • Comment by the project initiator / Sievers
  • Summary of outcome and findings / Zaccheddu
  • Status EGN service infrastructure / Blankert
  • EGN Reference Application / Schach
  • EGN ArcGIS Extension / Börner & Neun
  • Exonyms and other variant names’ management / Stani-Fertl
  • Actions and future plans / Jakobsson
  • Final discussion & Closing / Zaccheddu
  • Minutes of Closing Workshop

Meetings

• Kick-off Meeting, Luxembourg (18 Sep '06)
• 2nd Consortium Meeting, Paris (7 - 8 Dec '06)
• WP5-specific Meeting, Frankfurt am Main (29 Jan '07)
• WP3/4/6-specific Meeting, Amsterdam (6 - 7 Feb '07)
• 3rd Consortium Meeting, Madrid (7 Mar '07)
• WP4-Meeting, Edinburgh (23 - 24 Apr '07)
• WP10 IT-Meeting on Security issues, Frankfurt am Main (3 May '07)
  • Architecture Overview / Blankert
  • Security Aspects / Schneider
  • Service-based Access Control in SDI / Drewnak
  • Minutes of IT-Meeting
• Joint meeting with the Working Group on Exonyms of UNGEGN, with the East, Central and Southeast-East Europe Division of UNGEGN, Prague (17 - 18 May '07)
• 4th Consortium Meeting, Dortmund (5 Jun '07)
• Information meeting with Reference Group, 9th UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, New York (23 Aug '07)
• 5th Consortium Meeting, Vienna (6 Sep '07)
• 6th Consortium Meeting, Paris (16 Nov '07)
• Mid-term review Meeting, Luxembourg (2 Oct '07)
• WP6-Meeting, Amsterdam (21 - 22 Jan '08)
• 7th Consortium Meeting, Ljubljana (3 - 4 Mar '08)
• 8th Consortium Meeting,Freising (4 Jun '08)
• 9th Consortium Meeting,Edinburgh (1 - 2 Sep '08)
• 10th Consortium Meeting,Vienna (1 - 2 Dec '08)
• 11th Consortium Meeting, Brussels (6 Feb '09)
• End-Review Meeting, Luxembourg (8 Apr '09)