At UWM Libraries the maps that are included in the digital collection
(http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/maps/index.html) all have been
cataloged. The relevant MARC information is transfered into
corresponding ContentDM metadata fields. ContentDM assigns a unique url
to every image and that is then put into a MARC 856 field with a
corresponding 530 note "Also available on the Internet." An additional
holding record is added to point users to the Internet link. You can see
an example of this by searching in our online catalog - PantherCat - here:
https://millib.wisconsin.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Try this title: Justus Perthes’ Wandkarte von Afrika zur Darstellung der
Bodenbedeckung
When you're at the MARC record you can select the button "staff view" to
see the MARC fields and data. The image - or a thumbnail image - is not
part of the catalog record but I wish they were. I was just thinking
about checking with our IT people to see if something like that is
possible in our system.
We also create a holding record for the scan itself. This is a rule
established way back in 2003. It seems the way cataloging rules are
loosening up we could create an entirely separate record for the scanned
tif - but in my old fashioned mind it still seems to make sense to keep
all three versions of the same item together on one record. With that
being said, we did create OCLC records for all of our ContentDM digital
map records so when users search WorldCat for some of our maps - they'll
find our holdings for both the print record and the digital map being
hosted on our ContentDM site record. The logic is the more opportunities
a person searching has to 'hit' or find material - the more access and use.
Hope this helps and good luck!
-Angie
Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
American Geographical Society Library
UW Milwaukee Libraries
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Subject: Re: Map images through an online catalog
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:13:46 -0500
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Bob!
Here at PSU, which is a Sirsi institution, we have done a handful of
projects linking a bib. record to a map image, particularly for our
Earth & Mineral Sciences Library's map collection. On other occasions
we are scanning map images and putting them up on our website under
digital collections, but creating metadata for each image and not
linking directly from records in the OPAC. Still, on other occasions
we create a bib. record for a specific website with groups of maps,
or a single map or atlas. So, we haven't standardized things yet
here, and I think that is due more to the question of whether or not
to do everything one way, and whether that way is through bib.
records in the OPAC. Personally, I see sharing information about
digital cart. materials being done in different manners as being a
good thing because underlying the decisions are differing needs and
purposed for the images involved.
Paige
At 10:00 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Map images through an online catalog
>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:41 -0500
>From: Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>Hi,
>
>Are any map librarians linking to their own map image database from
>a Voyager catalog or from WorldCat Local? We do this for the David
>Rumsey maps, but I wonder if anyone is linking from a map record in
>their OPAC to the specific individual image in their own database of
>map images.
>
>Any information would be great. And in fact linking strategies from
>any of the standard OPACs would be interesting.
>
>Bob
>
>
>Bob Kibbee
>Map & GIS Librarian
>Map and Geospatial Information Collection
>B17 Olin Library, Cornell University
>Ithaca, New York 14853-5301
>voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-3609
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