Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
7- Inspiere and eurogeonames
EuroGeoNames has defined infrastructure for geographical names in
Europe. It is developed as one of the fundaments of the INSPIRE.
EuroGeoNames and INSPIRE are treating geographical names in
formalized, well defined and structured way. It is treating geographical
names as separate data set in context of other INSPIRE data sets.
EuroGeoNames and INSPIRE do not consider ontology of place names. It
would provide basis for web of data. They are defining geographical
names in the context of EU Regulations and ISO specification.
EuroGeoNames is defining system on the level of object oriented
semantics (UML schema). It is regular way of developing data in the
INSPIRE system.
EGN global ontological domain is not explicitly defined in EGN
documentation, but it can be taken out trough essential EGN data and
required/mandatory (and optional) content of EGN Local Services. EGN
gazetteer is understood as a list of geographical names, postal codes or
street addresses (EGN 2009). EGN domain for ontology can be
reconstructed using essential gazetteer and EuroGeoNames system entries:
names, feature types and geographical „footprints”, and content of EGN
Local Services. Required/mandatory and optional content of EGN Local
Services are:
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Required/mandatory content: name, variant name, short name, different
languages, language, extent, position, coordinate referent system, date
of creation, feature classification according to the EGN feature
classification, local feature classification, organization(s) responsible,
he date of last modification of any of the stored properties of the name,
the status of the name and the unique identifier of the associated spatial
object/feature,
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Optional content: the historical start/end dates of a name, the pronuncia-
tion of the name (IPAs and/or audio-files), the data source, the local
status of the name, the national unique IDs (name- or feature-related),
the grammatical number of the name, the gender of the name, the script
