Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship |
Date: | Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:01:23 -0500 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Creating 655s for old records
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:36:49 -0500
From: Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
I'd be grateful to hear if any organization has put together a set of
straightforward instructions for adding lcgft headings (655s) to older
cartographic-materials records that it would be willing to share.
Weren't OCLC or LC at least thinking along these lines? I'm imagining
something like:
if format = e or f
and
if 650 > Geology
add 655 7 Geological maps $2 lcgft
if format = e or f
and
if 651 $v = Maps, Topographic.
change 651 $v to Maps.
and
add 655 7 Topographic maps. $2 lcgft
and so on. Perhaps I've overlooked something, but I'm pretty sure that a
few dozen such rules could deal with 99% of the records.
Law librarians are apparently doing something like this--although lcgft
headings in law look to be much harder to derive mechanically from
elements in older records than is the case for cartographic-materials
records.
Thanks for any hints.
Best,
Chris Winters
Christopher Winters
Bibliographer for Geography, Anthropology, and Maps
University of Chicago Library
|
|
|