Encoding coordinates in non-map records

Aaron Smith

2014-10-17 11:25:46 UTC

Have a look at what Ohio History Connection (formerly Ohio Historical
Society) is doing with such collections as this one:

http://www.remarkableohio.org/Index.aspx

They offered an impressive presentation at this year's OVGTSL (Ohio Valley
Group of Technical Services Librarians) conference, including mention of
their use of an open source generator for geographical coordinates,
available via github.

I have sent contact info for the presenters to Laurie off-list.

Regards,
A -

Aaron Smith
Assistant Manager, Technical Services
The Genealogy Center
Allen County Public Library
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260.421.1200 x2652

Post by Elaine Franco
I'm curious to find people who are encoding coordinates (or
standardized addresses) in library records for non-map materials.
I know that there are spaces within Dublin Core
(http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-point/), MARC (034/255 field) and
VRA Core for including coordinates, but I haven't found examples of
catalogers who are routinely specifying either geographic coordinates
or standardized addresses for non-map materials.
1) A book describing the history of a particular building or intersection
2) A lithograph of a 19th century street scene
3) A photograph of a person in front of a recognizable building
3) A manuscript collection related to the history of a particular place.
Some context: I've recently worked with students and "hacktivists" on
pulling data out of library systems and exploring those data through
various data visualization tools. We've found that the geographic data
in many of the records is often either not included, or not
standardized so that a lot of data cleaning needs to be done in order
to map the contents. However, in many cases, an addresses or other
standard geographic information is included in plain text notes field.
A collection of Philadelphia librarians and archives would like to
learn from someone who has already established best practices for
coordinate-level or address level encoding of places.
Thanks.
Laurie Allen
Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Services
Haverford College Library
370 Lancaster Ave
Haverford, PA 19041
610-896-4226
Forwarded to AUTOCAT at the request of Laurie Allen
By Elaine Franco, University of California, Davis
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