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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: First steps to coordinates in LC authority records
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:48:22 -0500
From: Tsering W Shawa ([log in to unmask]) <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Colleen,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=213449 page will give you an easy direction of converting degree, minute and second to decimal degrees in Excel.
Hope this information is helpful.
-Wangyal
Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Head, Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Geosciences and Map Library
Fine Hall B Level, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-4607
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis
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From: "Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2006 1:20 pm
Subject: MAPS-L: First steps to coordinates in LC authority records (fwd)
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> Subject: First steps to coordinates in LC authority records
> (fwd)Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:06:34 -0500 (EST)
> From: Colleen Cahill <[log in to unmask]>
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> At the mid-Winter ALA in San Antonio, MARBI (Machine-Readable
> Bibliographic Information) Committee agreed to moving forward on
> Discussion Paper No. 2006-DP01: Recording geographic coordinates
> in the
> MARC 21 Authority Format
> <http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2006/2006-dp01.html>. This
> discussion paper
> was brought forward through the work of Jimmie Lundgren, Science and
> Social Science Cataloging Unit Head, George A. Smathers Libraries,
> University of Florida and Rebecca Gunther, Senior Networking and
> StandardsSpecialist, Network Development and MARC Standards
> Office, Library of
> Congress, with the encouragement of many, many people. My
> personal thanks
> to all who helped with this success!
>
> The next step will be to form a purposal, which Rebecca Guenther
> will be
> working on in the future. While this is going on, there will be
> opportunities for us to begin gathering data and coordinate tools to
> manipulate this data. One piece I am looking for is a program
> that will
> batch convert decimal coordinates to format of degrees, minutes,
> seconds used
> in the MARC standard 034 for bibligraphic records and also from
> the 034
> format to decimal degrees. I have a Excel file of over 3000
> records I can
> start testing with: this would be the modern bounding box
> coordinates for
> the counties in the United States. If anyone knows of such a program,
> please let me know.
>
> Colleen
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