Historical Maps Collection (aka UCSC Library Maps)

[rmjaffe]

Collection Information

• Formal collection title: Historical Maps
• Collection description: This collection includes digitized historic maps, primarily of Santa Cruz county, showing the boundaries of land ownership, as well as names of landowners and uses of the land as well as information about streets, buildings, and physical features such as creeks.
• Rights statements: vary, see spreadsheet.

Includes:

• Weber's map of Santa Cruz County, California / Published by C.F. Weber & Co
• Official Map of Santa Cruz County...
• Official map of the County of Santa Cruz / compiled & drawn from official
• Official map of the County of Santa Cruz / compiled & drawn from official
• Wright Bennett Healy Maps
• Map of Santa Cruz County, 1880-81. compiled by Thomas W. Wright, M.V. Bennett, and L.B. Healy

Objects

• Type of content (images, audio, albums, etc.): Complex image objects
• Special requirements / issues: Requires that multiple files/objects be converted into single files/objects and that metadata is complexified and updated accordingly.
• 282 files
• Collection size: 64.5 GB
• Location of digital files: //artifacts2.library.ucsc.edu/diginit2/1 Maps/For DAMS Ingest
• Location on dams_ingest: //dams.library.ucsc.edu/dams_ingest/sc_maps

Acceptance Criteria

Done means:

• [x] Multiple image files converted from to single image files (as needed)
• [ ] Ingest metadata spreadsheet conforms to Bulkrax ingest specification
• [x] Files relocated to dams_ingest
• [ ] Collection has been successfully ingested
• [ ] Images display properly
• [ ] Metadata displays properly
• [ ] Collection has been published and is available to users on DAMS homepage

[rmjaffe]

Update Discussion was had about how to best migrate these maps.

• DECISION: follow Sue’s recommendations; no need to migrate 1927 map; RJ to review spreadsheet for assessment of how to handle complex objects
• ACTION: @chesleyperry will check with @afrebert about the possibility of stitching tiles maps together into single images. Once the feasibility of this has been determine and/or this work is completed, RJ will work on updating metadata.

[rmjaffe]

@tmariamora We're needing a collection title, collection description, and rights information.

[tmariamora]

@rmjaffe Is it possible to easily determine if all of the maps are of SC County?

[tmariamora]

@rmjaffe in re: to copyright as long as we're not including Standard Atlas Maps (which I don't think we are) I believe everything is in the public domain. If you point me to spreadsheet I'm happy to review and confirm.

[rmjaffe]

The spreadsheet is here: smb://artifacts2.library.ucsc.edu/DOMTP/RJ_Working/SC_County_Maps_Misc_20211013.xlsx

The dates range from 1853-1989.

And if you sort on the subjectPlace column, you can see that not all the maps include SC County locations.

Standards are a separate ingest (spreadsheet is in my working folder in the DOMTP share). We supplied a rights statement 'Property rights for this work reside with the University of California. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. The digital copy of this work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study. The publication or use of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use for research or educational purposes requires written permission from the copyright owner. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information on copyright or to order an image, please visit guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/reproduction-publication.' , and a rightsstatements.org URI of 'http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/', and an accessRights value of 'Public'.

[tmariamora]

@rmjaffe Thank you! I've created an exceptionally generic collection title and description. As to rights, it looks like all but 7 maps are in the public domain. Would you want me to just add rights statements for those into the spreadsheet (probably the same language as the Standards) and then you'll know that everything else is out of copyright? I can also just update the spreadsheet for everything. Now that I've identified the outliers I think it will be pretty easy to do.

[rmjaffe]

Please, if you're willing, add those values to the spreadsheet. I don't have it open so there should be no issue editing. Thank you!

[tmariamora]

@rmjaffe one more thing; currently items published in 1926 are in the public domain. There is one map published in 1927 I am making a command decision and declaring it out of copyright for our purposes given the fact that we're still months out on publication.

[rmjaffe]

Tsk, tsk ;-)

[rmjaffe]

We have determined that this collection requires review of the physical collection and verification of metadata.

[rmjaffe]

Update/next steps:

• Belinda has checked the DOM against the MARC records and has recorded updates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l1zubNVLIQ53JT5npoKSOSUpmGZXBk13/edit#gid=760264198 (Note: coordinate data is still wanting. Are we OK moving forward without it?)
• Some of the item call numbers have been updated. Do we want to correspondingly update the filenames?
• Metadata spreadsheet will need to be updated accordingly, relationships will need to be assigned and sheet will need to be brought up the bulkrax standard.
• Will need to decided if we want to ingest these maps as complex image object sets or as filesets. Each page/file of the atlases has robust page-level metadata, will need to check with devs if this can be supported if we prefer to ingest as filesets.
• Will need to check to ensure that files are ready for ingest and moved to dams_ingest.

[rmjaffe]

RJ is working on upgrading metadata for this collection; spreadsheet is currently with Luisa. Students are working to supply Geonames values and URIs.