Date:Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:40:17 -0500
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From:"Colleen R. Cahill" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:First steps to coordinates in LC authority records
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At the mid-Winter ALA in San Antonio, MARBI (Machine-Readable
Bibliographic Information) Committee agreed to moving forward on
Discussion Paper No. 2006-DP01: Recording geographic coordinates in the
MARC 21 Authority Format
<http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2006/2006-dp01.html>. This discussion paper
was brought forward through the work of Jimmie Lundgren, Science and
Social Science Cataloging Unit Head, George A. Smathers Libraries,
University of Florida and Rebecca Gunther, Senior Networking and Standards
Specialist, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of
Congress, with the encouragement of many, many people. My personal thanks
to all who helped with this success!
The next step will be to form a purposal, which Rebecca Guenther will be
working on in the future. While this is going on, there will be
opportunities for us to begin gathering data and coordinate tools to
manipulate this data. One piece I am looking for is a program that will
batch convert decimal coordinates to format of degrees, minutes, seconds used
in the MARC standard 034 for bibligraphic records and also from the 034
format to decimal degrees. I have a Excel file of over 3000 records I can
start testing with: this would be the modern bounding box coordinates for
the counties in the United States. If anyone knows of such a program,
please let me know.
Colleen
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