The IBGE-UNGEGN International Toponymy course held in Rio de Janeiro, May 15-19, 2017
Ferjan Ormeling
With 34 participants from 7 countries (Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tom? e Principe and Uruguay) the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat?stica (IBGE) and the UNGEGN WG on Training Courses in Toponymy organized a 5-day course in toponymy. Lecturers came from Brazil, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands. The course was opened by Paulo Rabello de Castro, President of IBGE, Helen Kerfoot, honorary chair of UNGEGN, and Cecille Blake on behalf of UNSD, and the first two days sessions were held on the functions of geographical names, an introduction to the terminology used, on the standardization of geographical and statistical names and national names standardization programmes and on the support provided by UNGEGN. Tuesday afternoon the fieldwork was introduced, through a description of the place name history of the area, (by the chair of joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy Prof. Paulo Menezes) as well as a geographical and historical description of the fieldwork area. Names collection and interview techniques were discussed, the name forms to be used were introduced and it was made sure that GPS equipment could be used, in order to locate the named objects collected in the field.
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