<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I am posting this on behalf of a colleague. Please direct your replies to her at <a href="mailto:lallen@haverford.edu">lallen@haverford.edu</a>. Please excuse cross-posting. <br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>Hi,<br>
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I'm curious to find people who are encoding coordinates (or standardized addresses) in library records for non-map materials.<br>
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I know that there are spaces within Dublin Core (<a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-point/" target="_blank">http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-point/</a>),
MARC (255 or 034) 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.<br>
<br>A few examples:<br>
1) A book describing the history of a particular building or intersection<br>
2) A lithograph of a 19th century street scene<br>
3) A photograph of a person in front of a recognizable building<br>
3) A manuscript collection related to the history of a particular place.<br>
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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<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
Laurie<br>
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Laurie Allen<br>Coordinator for Digital Scholarship and Services<br>
Haverford College Library<br>
370 Lancaster Ave<br>
Haverford, PA 19041<br>
610-896-4226</div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><font face="georgia,serif">Sarah Horowitz<br></font></div><font face="georgia,serif">Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts<br></font><font face="georgia,serif">Head of Special Collections <br></font></div><font face="georgia,serif"></font></div><font face="georgia,serif">Haverford College Libraries<br>Haverford College<br></font></div><div><font face="georgia,serif">370 Lancaster Ave. <br></font></div><font face="georgia,serif">Haverford, PA 19041<br>(610) 896-2948<br></font></div><font face="georgia,serif"><a href="mailto:shorowitz@haverford.edu" target="_blank">shorowitz@haverford.edu</a><br></font></div>
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