Database of the digitized map collections
map collections outside the Czech Republic
Lionel Pincus and Pricess Firyal Map Division. The New York Public Library |
| Name of the digital map collection: Digital Collections |
| Web address of digitized cartographic documents: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ |
| National identifier of the collection (if available): |
| The main thematic content/s of the collection: |
| The collection departmental code: - |
Contact |
| Address: 176 fifth ave room 117 NY NY 10018 |
| Name of contact person: Ian Fowler |
| Phone to contact person: |
| Contact person's email ianfowler@nypl.org |
Information about the collection |
| The most important printed publications about the map collection: |
Other important information about the collection: https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/map-division |
The physical fund of the collection |
| The total size of the physical fund (also not processed): 600.000 |
| The number of processed units in the electronic catalogue: 30.000 |
| The number of physical units of old cartographic materials: |
| The typology of old cartographic materials: old maps; manuscript maps; old atlases; old globes; |
| Expected final processing of the collection: Up to 3 years |
The digital fund of the map collection |
| The total number of individual digitized images (also unpublished): 26.536 |
| Of this number is already published: 26.536 |
| 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.): |
Descriptive metadata |
| Library or archive programs used for cataloging: others; |
| Standards used for metadata descriptions: |
| Rules used to create metadata: AACR2/R; ISBD; RDA; |
| Methodologies used for the description: |
| Indexing by: key words; subject entries; chronological 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: No |
| Search by map markers: No |
| Reading old fonts in the OCR: No |
| Full text search from legends: No |
| Digitization of maps on request: Yes |
| Other services: Further data access: World Digital Library 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: yes |
Aggregation into higher units |
| Digitalized cartographic documents are eported into superior aggregates: Oldmapsonline.org; World Digital Library; |
Last data update 23/02/2021 22:21:23 by the user novotna