Maps

Provides guidelines for metadata specific to maps (or records with cartographic as the Type of Resource) described in the Metadata Management System (MMS)

Table of contents

1. Guidelines
   1. Genre
   2. Note
2. See Also

Guidelines

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Genre

View MSU Documentation for Element →

• Add Genre based on the of the Genre (non-AMI) 🔒 tab of the Genre + Form + Extent 🔒 spreadsheet
  • The tab has been filtered to displays genre terms with the cartographic in the  common/primary type of resource(s) field

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Note

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• Combine and relocate any longform Note elements with descriptive content to the Abstract element
  • If there are only one or two notes that don’t form a comprehensive description of the resource, they can remain as a Note and with the Type: content
• Add the source record’s MARC 590 (“Local Note”) to the appropriate element:
  • Add as a Note and set the Type to content if the local note does not relate to the physical characteristics of the resource
  • Alternately, relocate the note to a Note subelement of Physical Description if the local note relates to the physical characteristics of the resource
• The source record’s MARC 255 including $a (“Statement of scale”), $b (“Statement of projection”), and $c (“Statement of coordinates”) can remain as a Note with the Type: content
• The current version of MODS used by the Metadata Management System does not yet support Subelement: <place><cartographics>

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See Also

• Cataloger’s Reference Shelf Map Cataloging Manual for detailed guidelines by category of map created by the Library of Congress