Abstract

REPEATABLE

MODS Element name: <subject><cartographics>

Short definition: Cartographic (maps or charts) data indicating spatial coverage.

Input guidelines: Fill out all cartographic subelements or leave all blank. Use to record scale (e.g. 1:25,000), projection, and/or coordinates. You may record: "not drawn to scale", "scales differ", or "no projection statement" in these fields.

Definition

Cartographic (maps or charts) data indicating spatial coverage.

DAMS input form fields

Cartographics

MODS Element description

Element <subject>

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/subject.html

Guidelines for use

<subject> is a container element that contains subelements relating to the subject aspect of the resource.

Attributes

No attributes are currently implemented in the DAMS for <subject> when used with the <cartographics> subelement.

Subelements

The following subelements of <subject> are used in the DAMS:

• cartographics
• (temporal)
• (topic)
• (geographic)
• (hierarchicalGeographic)
• (geographicCode)

Subelement <subject><cartographics>

Guidelines for use

<cartographics> is a container element; data content is entered in the subelements.

Fill out all <cartographics> subelements or leave all blank.

Attributes

Subelements

The following subelements of <subject><cartographics> are used in the DAMS:

• coordinates
• scale
• projection

Subelement <subject><cartographics><coordinates>

Guidelines for use

Contains a statement of coordinates covered by the resource. One or more statements may be supplied.

Enter point coordinates in decimal format, with the value for latitude first (e.g.: 18.2975,-65.9914). Preferably, use positive values for coordinates on the Northern and Eastern hemisphere, and negative values for coordinates on the Southern and Western hemisphere. If you provide a compass direction, place it after the numeric coordinate, not before.

Attributes

Subelements

No subelements for <coordinates>.

Subelement <subject><cartographics><scale>

Guidelines for use

Provides a statement of scale. Use this element to describe cartographic resources only. To record scale for non-cartographic resources, use the a note element with type "scale". You may also record: "not drawn to scale", or "scales differ".

Attributes

Subelements

No subelements for <scale>.

Subelement <subject><cartographics><projection>

Guidelines for use

Provides a statement of projection. You may also record: "no projection statement".

Attributes

Subelements

No subelements for <projection>.

XML Examples

<subject>
	<cartographics displayLabel="Cartographic properties"> 
		<coordinates displayLabel="Cartographic coordinates">18.2975,-65.9914</coordinates> 
		<scale displayLabel="Cartographic scale">1:250,000 </scale>   
		<projection displayLabel="Coordinate system">Universal Transverse Mercator</projection> 
	</cartographics> 
</subject>

Mappings

Dublin Core

Currently, no data from <cartographics> subelements is mapped to DC elements.

MARC 21

See http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-mapping.html#subject. The following specific guidelines apply for the DAMS:

Solr

In general, all MODS metadata is imported into the DAMS Solr server upon ingest. The ingest process generates Solr fields typically named according to the following schema:

mods_value*_suffix

where

• value* can be one or multiple element, subelement or attribute names that allow to distinguish Solr fields
• suffix is s, t, ss, ms or mt, which refers to the type of data stored in a Solr field and how it is indexed. The Solr index usually contains multiple copies of each field with the same content, distinguished by their suffix.

The following table shows mappings between MODS elements and Solr fields for those fields that are currently used for display in the Collections portal, or where additional processing happens in Islandora or during the publishing process. Suffixes are ignored, unless relevant for the mapping.