BTAA Geoportal & Digital Collections

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Last updated: Aug 17, 2022 by Stephanie Porrata (Unlicensed)
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Crosswalk between MARC, Digital Collections, & BTAA Geoportal


MARC ElementDigital Collections fieldDigital Collections exampleBTAA Geoportal fieldBTAA Geoportal exampleNotes
090$a$b; 050$a$bCall NumberG4083.S3P2 1919 .O5  

090 is our OSU local call number. If item does not have an 090, use 050.
100$a; 110$a; 111$aCreatorOhio. State Highway CommissionCreatorOhio. State Highway Commission
700$a$e; 710$a$e; 711$a$eContributor


BTAA only has creator field. We will omit this information for them.
245$a$b$n$p$sTitle

Scioto County

TitleScioto County

130, 210, 240, 242, 246, 730

Alternative Title
Alternative Title

250Description3rd edDescription3rd ed

DC mapping based on Weber & Austin, pg. 72. Mapped to be included in description for BTAA.

260$c cXXXX

264 ind2=4 $c

Date Copyrightedc1919; ©1919Date Issued1919*In first case, 260$c is "c1919" which needs to be converted to Date Copyrighted for DC and the "c" removed from the string for BTAA.
 300$cExtent41 x 50 cm., folded to 19 x 12 cm

Omitted from Geoportal.
255$a$b; 500; 505DescriptionCopyright 1919 by Clinton Cowen, State Highway Commissioner for the state of Ohio|Includes "Explanation."|Text and statistics on versoDescriptionCopyright 1919 by Clinton Cowen, State Highway Commissioner for the state of Ohio. Includes "Explanation." Text and statistics on verso.

For DC, different values will be separate entries. BTAA Geo allows for concatenating MARC fields and values  in Description.

260$b or 264 ind2=1$bPublisherOhio. State Highway CommissionPublisherOhio. State Highway Commission
260$c; 264 ind2=2$c; 264 ind2=3$cDate1919? ; 1800-1899Temporal Coverageapproximately 1919; between 1800 and 1899For MARC records with unclear/unspecific dates, default to using Temporal Coverage in Geoportal.
264 ind2=0 $cDate Created



260$c; 264_1$cDate Issued1919Date Issued1919
650$y; 651$yTime Period (Topic)*1910s (1910-1919)

When present in MARC, can be used in OpenRefine to reconcile with DC formatting i.e. converting 1947 to 1940s (1940-1940). 

260$c; 264$c 

Date1800-1899Date Range"[1800 TO 1899]"In Geoportal, only use Date Range for records with a specified date range in the 260/264. If no date range is specified, leave date range empty.
600, 610, 611, 630, 650$aSubjectRoadsSubject
For DC, only use $a.
925$yIdentifieri94350760

For DC, we use item number




Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/1811/261823a1-c37a-41ed-9481-1b59491dc4bdFor BTAA, we are using Handle



IDosu-9880w304wFor BTAA, we use osu-[generic ID]
650$z; 651$a; 662$a but no direct equivalentPlace (Topic)Scioto County (Ohio)|OhioSpatial CoverageScioto County, Ohio|Ohio

Because DC doesn't handle places very well, format places as follows 

  • City (State)|State|Country 
  • County (State)|State|Country
  • River Name (State)|State|Country
  • Country Name 

For BTAA, convert anything in ( ) to be separated by a comma. See example on the left. 

655Genre
Resource Type

034$defg or 255$c

Bounding Box
List coordinates in the format of Klokan’s CSV option. (w,s,e,n).
008/35-37LanguageengLanguageeng

DC stores ISO language codes for this field. BTAA Geo asks for a 3-letter code using the ISO 639-3 standard.


Resource TypeImage

"Image" is the standardized term for DC
520 ind1=_ $a; 520 ind1=3_ $aSummary
Description

655 ind2=7 $2; 655 ind2=0Staff Notes


Maps the CV used to staff notes.
340$aMedium


Unlikely to show up in older MARC records



Manifesthttps://library.osu.edu/dc/concern/generic_works/9880w304w/manifest.json





Thumbnail Imagehttps://library.osu.edu/dc/downloads/6t053t20h?file=thumbnail

You can grab the thumbnail ID from the Data Dump and plug it into the following link:

https://library.osu.edu/dc/downloads/thumbnail id?file=thumbnail

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