<p xmlns="http://purl.org/oslo/ns/localgov#">A geographic name is a proper noun applied to a spatial object. Taking the example used in the <a href="http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Data_Specifications/INSPIRE_DataSpecification_GN_v3.0.1.pdf">INSPIRE document</a> (page 18), the following are all valid geographic names for the Greek capital:</p> <ul xmlns="http://purl.org/oslo/ns/localgov#"><li>A?n?a (the Greek endonym written in the Greek script)</li><li>Athina (the standard Romanisation of the endonym)</li><li>Athens (the English language exonym)</li></ul> <p xmlns="http://purl.org/oslo/ns/localgov#">For INSPIRE-conformant data, provide the metadata for the geographic name using a skos:Concept as a datatype.</p>