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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: expanding cutters.
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005
From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


What I've seen done most often is
expanding the cutter.
There are 2 other methods, which
I've seen relatively seldom:
a. using a,b,c, etc., after author cutter
(which Jon mentioned)
b. using a,b,c, etc., after the year,
e.g., 2003a, 2003b, ....

Mary Lynette Larsgaard

Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory

Fund Manager: Geography

Co-Manager for Map and Imagery Laboratory Fund

Davidson Library

University of California

Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010

USA

805/893-4049

fax 805/893-8799

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Angie Cope, AGSL wrote:

> Sorry! I was off Friday and not checking my email ... so this one
> becomes a Tuesday question ...
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> Subject: expanding cutters.
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:31:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> Here's a Friday afternoon classification question for you:
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> As we start to get more organized here at UO, we are finding more and
> more
> gaps in our knowledge, and more and more maps that seem to want the same
> class number.
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> It's no surprise that multiple maps wind up with the same class numbers.
> But when the author/publisher is the same, how are people expanding
> cutters to distinguish between 2 different titles.  Are they using a work
> indicator, ala:
>
>        G 7610 2003 .U5a
>        G 7610 2003 .U5b
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> or are you expanding the cutter according to the table, slowly spelling
> out United States as the CIA produces each successive ever-so-slightly
> different map of Iraq:
>
>        G 7610 2003 .U5
>        G 7610 2003 .U55
>        G 7610 2003 .U558
>        G 7610 2003 .U5584
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> Inquiring minds want to know.  And dusty maps want to be put away.
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> -jon jablonski
>  University of Oregon MAP/GIS Librarian
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