Dear Charlotte

With regard to the cataloguing of maps you might want to take a quick 
look at some of the links at 
http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=737#catalog
and in particular the guide for the occasional map cataloguer at:
http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/Guides/Mapcataloguing.pdf

As for copyright and OS maps, if the map being copied is more than 50 
years old then it is copyright free. To copy and use for commercial 
purposes any map that is less than 50 years old requires the permission 
of OS, and probably the payment of a fee. See, for example, 
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/crown-copyright.html 
  Not quite sure, however, how you prove that a sketch is from an out of 
copyright map. If in doubt contact OS!

Anne

On 16/01/2015 16:43, Charlotte Berry wrote:
> Hello all
> We are looking at re-arranging and re-cataloguing a large portion of our
> maps and plans. These cover OS, family/estate, tithe, factory,
> residential and civic functions. At the moment they are scattered
> variously around different collections, but mainly come from our
> Property dept.
> One thing we are considering is whether we should create a generic Maps
> and Plans collection, therefore defining the collection by type. We
> would need to come up with some kind of classification system for the
> new collection which would be linked back somehow to the original order
> or provenance and to where the item was previously catalogued or housed.
> Or should we instead keep maps and plans as some kind of series within
> our main range of fonds, where we treat it as a record type ordered
> according to creator eg Property, different Clarks subsidiary firms,
> member of Clark family, district council?
> Does anyone have any guidance or tips for tackling a project of this
> kind? We are potentially redesigning things from scratch and will be
> setting up accordingly on Adlib.
> I am particularly interested in definitions and the level of detail
> included in the description, including whether extra fields are useful
> for map-specific content (we might invent a map-specific catalogue
> template).
> Feedback please! I will summarise for the list if I get enough responses.
> We have also had a query from some Clarks shoe designers who would like
> to sketch from an OS map and to use the finished result in Clarks
> products. I can't imagine somehow that such commercial use of OS is
> allowed, even if it is reproduction via a third party, so to speak, with
> some artistic/creative input - can somebody fill me in on the details
> please so I can point out that this might be a problem and they will
> need to seek advice from somebody else more qualified to do so? Or is it
> all OK and I am being fussy?
> Have a good weekend
> Charlotte
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