UNGEGN Norden Division Meeting, New York, 29. april, 2014

Present

Peder Gammeltoft, Denmark, chair
John Jensen, Denmark
Sirkka Paikkala, Finland
Leila Mattfolk, Finland
Teemu Leskinen, Finland
Lisa Monica Aslaksen, Norway
Botolv Helleland, Norway
Kjetil Ringen, Norway
Annette Torensjö, Sweden
Staffan Nyström, Sweden
Leif Nilsson, Sweden
Michel Simeu Kamdem, Cameroun.
Peeter Päll, Estonia

Agenda

1. Chairman’s welcome
2. Election of keeper of minutes
3. Acceptance of minutes agenda
3. Norden Division homepage
4. INSPIRE and EGN news
5. Next Norden Division Meeting
6. Any other business

Minutes

1. Chairman’s welcome

Division Chairman, Peder Gammeltoft, welcomed all participants, particularly the non-Norden Division members Peeter Päll and Michel Simeu Kamdem.

2. Election of keeper of minutes

Division Secretary, John Jensen, was elected for this post.

3. Acceptance of minutes agenda

The Agenda minutes were accepted without changes.

4. Norden Division homepage

There are still pieces of information that need to be added before the site is complete and fully operational. Peder Gammeltoft urged the other division members to submit the missing content and report any corrections to be made.
All Norden Division meetings minutes since 2003 are now posted on the website.

5. INSPIRE and EGN news

No news since the previous meeting in Tallinn. The implementation of the INSPIRE Directive is running according to plan in the individual countries. Reference was made to the progress report of EGN (WP 22/9)
The so-called ELF project (European Location Framework) was discussed and commented on. In particular, the fact that the "schema" for place names differed from INSPIRE was discussed. Read more about ELF: http://www.elfproject.eu/

6. Next Norden Division Meeting

Peder Gammeltoft gave a brief review of the division's structure under this item.
Date and place of the next meeting was discussed and it was agreed to try to arrange the 2015 meeting in Kárášjohka/Karasjok in Norway, preferably in August.
The idea of ??a mini-seminar in connection with this meeting was discussed. Possible topics could include e.g. presentations of free data and new place names databases. Could also be a fitting start-up of our ideas of a minority place names database/service. (see item. 7 in the minutes of the meeting in Uppsala October 29th, 2010).
It was also noted that it was Norway’s turn to hold the division chair from 2017.

7. Any other business

It was agreed that initiatives to start up the projecting of a minority place names database / service had to be sorted out before next year’s meeting.
For the sake of the guest participants, a brief over view of the state of minority languages ??in the individual countries was given. A more detailed survey of minority languages in the Norden Division area could also be a topic for 2015 Norden Division meeting.