6th Workshop of the EuroGeoNames Consortium & Reference Group jointly with the Working Group on Toponymic Data Files and Gazetteers of the UNGEGN, took place on Tuesday 03 June 2008, Freising, Germany.  You can read more about it here.

Workshops

• Workshop 1: First 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 (15th 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: second Workshop Consortium & Reference Group - jointly with UNGEGN WG on Top Gaz Files (5 - 6 March ´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 (4th June ´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: third Workshop Consortium & the Reference Group - Business Models & Web Services implementing issues (14 - 15 November ´07)
  • Agenda
  • Business and pricing model & access control / Ulrich
  • INSPIRE activity / Zaccheddu
  • Conceptual Data Schema / Reid
  • Proposal of Feature Type Classification / Adela
  • 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: fourth Workshop Consortium & the Reference Group - EGN web services implementation (03 June ´08)
  • Agenda
  • Opening / Zaccheddu
  • Summary of actionssince the last EGN workshop / Zaccheddu
  • INSPIRE Thematic Working Group (TWG) on GeographicalNames / Illert
  • EGN Services Architecture / Knibbe
  • EGN –Access Control / Börner
  • Implementing EGN infrastructure / Knibbe
  • EGN -local serviceFirst 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

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, 9. 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)
• 7th Consortium Meeting, Ljubljana (3 - 4 Mar '08)