Map collecting in the digital age: Implementing non-print legal deposit in the UK Legal Deposit Libraries. Issue 3 (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fleet, Chris; Hatfield, Philip
• Is Part Of: Alexandria. Volume 27:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 197
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: digital archiving -- geospatial data -- maps -- metadata -- non-print legal deposit; Library science -- Periodicals; Information science -- Periodicals; 020.5
• DOI: 10.1177/0955749017730712
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0955-7490

Abstract

The Legal Deposit Libraries (LDLs) of the United Kingdom and Ireland have recently started collecting born-digital mapping under the non-print legal deposit (NPLD) regulations that were passed in 2013. Since 1998, the LDLs have received born-digital mapping from the Ordnance Survey as part of a voluntary deposit arrangement, and so the implementation of NPLD legislation requires an evolution of systems already in development. This article will discuss how the LDLs have set out to develop a new platform for the display of legal deposit maps in their respective reading rooms, how the material received will be catalogued and archived, and the process by which publishers will be approached about new NPLD regulations.