Metadata Loading

It is estimated that perhaps as much as ninety percent of all geospatial data is available in hard-copy form only. In such a situation, it is imperative that any system offering online access to geospatial data include access to metadata for heavy-use materials that are not yet available in digital form. In order to address this problem, ADL has loaded two major metadata sets:

• Geodex: ca. 335,000 sheet-level records, predominantly for large- and medium-scale topographic and nautical-chart series, but with some thematic (e.g., geologic) map series included; cataloging done by the American Geographical Society Collection, Golda-Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (contact person: Dr. Christopher Baruth)

• GeoRef: ADL has a research agreement with the American Geological Institute to use ca. 60,000 records for predominantly hardcopy earth-sciences information (e.g., periodical articles; maps; etc.) of California

• NASA/Ames: ca. 430,000 frame-level records, for air-photo flight flown by the Ames Research Center, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s

In progress; scheduled for loaded:

• Colorado photographs: the University of Colorado component of the ADL UIE Team is metaloging a small collection of aerial photographs of an area in the Front Range; this group is working with Denver Public Library on historic hand-held-camera photographs of Colorado;

• Map records for maps held by all UC-system libraries. A join of MELVYL catalog map records (map records from the joint online catalog of the UC-system libraries), the PEGASUS map records (map records - including records for U.S.-depository maps from 1976 to the present - from the online catalog of the Davidson Library, UCSB); and the U.S.-depository records not presently in MELVYL will be loaded.