For UK map librarians and/or LIBER's Groupe de Cartothequaires to respond?
Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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> Sent: 07 April 2000 14:39
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> Subject: Online Map Cataloging in Europe
>
> It has dawned upon me that I am completely ignorant about what is
> being done outside of North America in the way of online map cataloging.
> I
> suspect that many of my colleagues on this continent are equally ignorant,
> and I hope that some of you in the Old World will enlighten the New in
> this
> respect.
>
> Are any institutions in Europe producing machine readable cataloging
> of maps and making the records available outside of the walls of their
> instutions? If so, who is doing the cataloging, and how can we view the
> records? Are the records being produced using MARC/AACR II, Dublin Core,
> or some other format? Are there existing or planned BritCats or EuroCats
> intended to rival our WorldCat? How can we find out more about what is
> being done or planned in Europe?
>
> These are significant and important questions for both map librarians
> and map users. Hope my style of expression is not deemed to catty.
>
> David Allen
> Map Librarian
> SUNY Stony Brook
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