Hi
Not sure how much cataloging experience you have or if you use OCLC for your MARC records. I'm a Library Technician and do mostly copy cataloging. I don't catalog GIS datasets but I've taken a couple of GIS classes. I've done some research on cataloging them just for personal interest.
You can find dataset MARC records in OCLC/WorldCat and see what they do as an example.
From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Sonoe Nakasone <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:11 AM
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Subject: Question about GIS Dataset CatalogingDear Maps-L,
I hope this reaches you -- not sure if I can post without being a list member.
Does anyone know of best practices for MARC encoding for GIS datasets? In our new catalog currently in development, we plan to use fixed fields to generate "resource type" facets. One such facet, we hope, will be for GIS datasets. Our problem so far is we can't seem to identify MARC codings that can be used to reliably identify GIS datasets in our catalog for this purpose.
The MARC codings aren't our only option for identifying these, but we'd prefer to use these codings where possible. I'd appreciate any thoughts, advice, suggestions, or resource recommendations for this. Thank you!
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