Considerations in Collecting Born-Digital Maps

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Lee Ann Nolan, Paige G. Andrew and Marcy Bidney, ‘The digital atlas dilemma: outlining the challenges for libraries’, Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 10:2 (2014): 132–56 (DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2013.821435).2 ‘Chela Scott Weber et al., Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections (Dublin, Ohio, OCLC Research, March 2021), https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2021/oclcresearch-total-cost-of-stewardship.html.3 Pierre Bonneau, ‘Keeping pace: exploring new methods to preserve today’s digital maps at the Bibliothèque nationale de France’, Imago Mundi 75:1 (2023): 114–17, at 114.4 Christopher Fleet, ‘Curating born-digital maps’, Imago Mundi 75:1 (2023): 118–22, at 118.5 Boston Public Library, Leventhal Map and Education Center (https://www.leventhalmap.org/articles/comp-cart-collections/).6 For an overview of the framework that led to the FLDP, see Kenya Flash and Dominique Hallett, ‘Documents de-emphasized? The shifting roles of government information professionals’, in The Academic Librarian in the Digital Age: Essays on Changing Roles and Responsibilities, ed. Tom Diamond (Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co, 2020), 110–11. For a thoughtful analysis of how born-digital legal information is changing public access and law libraries, see Reecca Kunkel, ‘Law libraries and the future of public access to born-digital government information’, Law Library Journal 109:1 (2017): 67–78.7 GPO Task Force on a Digital Federal Depository Library Program, ‘Report of the GPO Director’s Task Force’ (https://www.fdlp.gov/file-repository-item/feasibility-digital-federal-depository-library-program-report-gpo-directors), 14, 22.8 Ibid., 56.9 The Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) is the creator of ArcGIS, a proprietary and widely used digital mapping and analytics software, https://www.esri.com.10 See American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), K–12 Resources, 2023 (https://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/agsl-resources/k-12-resources/).11 See Owen Evans, ‘Moving to ArcGIS StoryMaps’ (published July 2019; most recent update December 2022), https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/472a6ddd582b40b58a5a6af2c30a4573.12 The United States Geological Survey (USGS) topoView is an online portal that makes available two types of USGS topographic maps: scanned, downloadable maps originally published as paper documents between 1884 and 2006 and post-2006 digital maps. See https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/.13 Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers et al., ‘Mapping inequality: redlining in New Deal America’ (University of Richmond, c.2020), https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/37.788/-97.91. The map is part of Robert K. Nelson et al, eds., American Panorama: An Atlas of American History, https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/.14 American Geographical Society Library, ‘Sanborn Maps of Milwaukee’ (https://webgis.uwm.edu/agsl/sanborn/).15 Native Land Digital Map (2018–), https://native-land.ca/; and Le Monde Diplomatique: Cartographie, https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/, constantly updated.16 The Decolonial Atlas (2015–), https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com.17 Kollektiv orangotango, This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter Cartographies (Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2018), and open access online, https://notanatlas.org/book/.