Database of the digitized map collections
map collections outside the Czech Republic
Département des Cartes et plans. Bibliothèque Nationale de France |
| Name of the digital map collection: Département des Cartes et plans |
| Web address of digitized cartographic documents: https://gallica.bnf.fr/html/und/cartes/cartes?mode=desktop |
| National identifier of the collection (if available): |
| The main thematic content/s of the collection: National collection |
| The collection departmental code: - |
Contact |
| Address: 58 rue de Richelieu 75004 Paris |
| Name of contact person: Eve Netchine |
| Phone to contact person: |
| Contact person's email eve.netchine@bnf.fr |
Information about the collection |
| The most important printed publications about the map collection: |
Other important information about the collection: |
The physical fund of the collection |
| The total size of the physical fund (also not processed): 1.000.000 |
| The number of processed units in the electronic catalogue: 361.249 |
| The number of physical units of old cartographic materials: 300.000 |
| The typology of old cartographic materials: old maps; manuscript maps; old atlases; old globes; |
| Expected final processing of the collection: After 5 and more years |
The digital fund of the map collection |
| The total number of individual digitized images (also unpublished): 78.000 |
| Of this number is already published: 76.000 |
| The collection is published: on-line; |
| The number of files in the databases of images (i.e. voluminous maps or atlases, so more objects joined in one): |
| The number of accessible 3D objects (globes, models, etc.): 100 |
Descriptive metadata |
| Library or archive programs used for cataloging: others; |
| Standards used for metadata descriptions: |
| Rules used to create metadata: ISBD; |
| Methodologies used for the description: RDA; |
| Indexing by: subjectchronological entries; geographical entries; |
| Are the before mentioned selection terms exported into metadata? yes |
| Additional information on the method and scope of the description: |
Services offered with digitized maps |
| Georeferencing (ground controlling) of maps: Yes |
| Map selection from map layouts: Yes |
| Search by map markers: Yes |
| Reading old fonts in the OCR: Yes |
| Full text search from legends: Yes |
| Digitization of maps on request: Yes |
| Other services: Users of data: elementary schools, secondary schools, universities, Academy of science, Science institutes, publishing houses, television, radio, film production, documents, public Providing of educational and promotional materials: Selections on the web, catalogs, papers.. |
Aggregation into higher units |
| Digitalized cartographic documents are eported into superior aggregates: |
Last data update 01/08/2023 12:14:54 by the user kloudova