Create a catalog record following DACS. Apply the guidelines in the Yale University Library Manuscript Cataloging Guidelines and the Beinecke MS Unit’s Cataloging Manual.
If the cartographic material is significant to the collection, add to the collection-level record:
If creating analytic records for individual cartographic components of the collection, use the directives in this manual.
Code your catalog record as dcrmc, record type f, bibliographic level c for collection. Refer to Appendix B Collection-Level Records of DCRM(C) (p. 207-222) for more guidance. In particular:
034 and 255: If all of the items in the collection have the same scale, projection, or coordinates, supply a 034 and a 255 like single items.
300: Optionally give item or volume count instead of linear footage.
300 __ ‡a 20 ‡f maps (in 3 boxes)
Atlas:
François Azan, Plans de plusieurs ports, rades, mouillages, caps, bancs, et dangers, GEN MSS VOL 695. Single map:
Ernest W. Branch, Lakeside Park Annex, Tewksbury, GEN MSS 1535.
(Also linked in the relevant fields)
https://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/cartographic-data.html [2]
https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/cartographic/655 [3]
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal [4]
https://maptools.com/scale_calculator [5]
https://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_name.html [6]
https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/cartographic [8]
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD19HBFhag8C [10]
Map cataloging: http://beinecke1.library.yale.edu/info/bookcataloging/map_cataloging.htm [11]
Atlases: http://beinecke1.library.yale.edu/info/bookcataloging/atlases.htm [12]
(For more terms, see DCRM(C) p. 337-359)
Atlas: A volume of maps, plates, engravings, tables, etc., with or without descriptive text.
Geographic coordinates: Coordinates on Earth in terms of latitude (the north–south position of a point on the Earth’s surface) and longitude (the east–west position of a point on the Earth’s surface). Expressed in decimal degrees or in degrees/minutes/seconds.
Neat line: A line, usually grid or graticule, that encloses the detail of a map.
Projection: Mathematical constructs used to represent a geographic surface that is three-dimensional on two-dimensional surface.
Relief: Inequalities of elevation and the configuration of land features on the surface of the Earth that may be represented on maps or charts by contours, hypsometric tints, shading, spot heights, hachures, etc. (see image below).
Scale: The ratio of distances on a map, or other cartographic item, to the actual distances they represent on earth. Scale gives an indication of a map’s level of detail. Statements of scale appear in various forms, including the representative fraction (“1:24,000”, which is the same as “1/24,000”), a verbal scale (“A hundred miles to an inch” “1 inch = 1 mile”), and a bar/graphic scale.
Links
[1] https://boundingbox.klokantech.com/
[2] https://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/cartographic-data.html
[3] https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/cartographic/655
[4] https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal
[5] https://maptools.com/scale_calculator
[6] https://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_name.html
[7] https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/GCutter.pdf
[8] https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/cartographic
[9] https://rbms.info/dcrm/dcrmc/
[10] https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD19HBFhag8C
[11] http://beinecke1.library.yale.edu/info/bookcataloging/map_cataloging.htm
[12] http://beinecke1.library.yale.edu/info/bookcataloging/atlases.htm