Descriptive Metadata for Digitization of Maps in Books: A British Library Project
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.53n2.108Abstract
Hidden special collections are increasingly being made visible and accessible by small digitization projects. In the project described in this paper, the British Library employed existing library standards and systems to accomplish key functions of a project to digitize a selection of maps contained within rare books. The integrated library system, using the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) and Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) format, acted as a lynchpin, linking directly bibliographic descriptions of both the original and the digital copies of the map, the book containing the map, the digital image, and preservation data and strategy, making the items widely searchable and visible while uniting them with the broader collections.
References
'“On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control”' (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress 2008) (accessed Aug. 18, 2008)nKimberly C. Kowal, John Rhatigan, '“The British Library’s Vulnerable Collection Items Project,”' LIBER Quarterly 18 no. 2 (2008): (accessed Oct. 24, 2008)http://liber.library.uu.nlnHeidi G. Lerner, Seth Jerchower, '“The Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project: Issues in Description, Access, and Reunification,”' Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 42 no. 1 (2006): 21-39 Ann Copeland et al., “Cataloging and Digitizing Ephemera: One Team’s Experience with Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Fraktur,”
Library Resources & Technical Services
, no. 3 (2006): 186–98; Jen Wolfe, “Digital Collection, the Next Generation: Transitioning to METS for a Science Fiction Digitization Project,”
Against the Grain
, no. 1 (2007): 37–40; “NASA Internet Archive to Digitize Space Imagery,”
Advanced Technology Libraries
, no. 10 (2007): 6; Susannah Benedetti, Annie Wu, and Sherman Hayes, “Art in a Medium-Sized University Library,”
Library Resources & Technical Services
, no. 2 (2004): 144–54; James A. Bradley, “Zen and the Digital Collection Librarian,”
Against the Grain
, no. 1 (2007): 32–36; Claire-Lise Bénaud, “Latin American and Iberian Posters: The Sam Slick Collection at the University of New Mexico,”
Collection Management
, no. 2 (2002): 87–95; Walter E. Valero, Claudia A. Perry, and Tom Surpranant, “History on a Postcard,”
netConnect
(Jan. 15, 2007), www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6404150.htmlnAmerican Library Association, Map and Geography Round Table, “ALA MARGERT Map Scanning Registry,” http://mapregistry.library.arizona.edu/cgi/index.plnRoy Tennant, '“21st-Century Cataloging,”' Library Journal 123 no. 7 (1998): 30-31nJeffrey Beall, '“Discrete Criteria for Selecting and Comparing Metadata Schemes,”' Against the Grain 19 no. 1 (Feb. 2007): 28-31nSarah Shatford Layne, '“MARC Format for Medieval Manuscript Images,”' Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 6 no. 1 (1991): 39-52nLerner and Jerchower, “The Penn/Cambridge Genizah Fragment Project”; Copeland et al., “Cataloging and Digitizing Ephemera.”nAnglo-American Cataloguing Rules
, 2nd ed., 2002 rev., 2005 update (Chicago: ALA; Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2005)nChristopher Cronin, '“Metadata Provision and Standards Development at the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP): A History,”' First Monday (May 2008) (accessed Nov. 15, 2008)nNicholas Graham, “North Carolina Maps: Metadata Schema,” University of North Carolina Libraries, unpublished document (May 9, 2008); Nicholas Graham, “MARC for Digital Project,” e-mail to Kimberly C. Kowal, Aug. 1, 2008nChristopher Cronin, “Cataloging Compound Digital Objects: Using METS for Digitized Sanborn Maps” (presentation at Introduction to Map Digitization, hosted by OCLC Preservation Centers, ALA Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan. 12, 2008), http://libnet.colorado.edu/facultyprofiles/files/publications/libcroninc/OCLC%20ALA%20MW%20–%20Sanborn%20METS%20–%20No%20Notes.pptnSee Terry Reese, “Low-Barrier MARC Record Generation from OAI-PMH repository Stores Using MarcEdit,” on pages 57–70 of this issuenMichaela Brenner, Peter Klein, '“Discovering the Library with Google Earth,”' Information Technology and Libraries 27 no. 2 (2008): 32-36 Michaela Brenner, telephone conversation with Kimberly C. Kowal, Aug. 15, 2008nn
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after it has been accepted for publication. Sharing can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
