Abstract:
The Anglo-American Committee for Cataloguing Cartographic Materials met in
Washington, D.C., September 8-14, 1998 to revise Cartographic Materials: A
Manual of Interpretation for AACR2. In addition to reviewing the text of Cartographic Materials for consistency with
the 1988 revision of AACR2 as well as subsequent updates, the committee
incorporated additional rules to accommodate information prescribed by the
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee’s Content Standards for Digital
Geospatial Metadata. An international subcommittee was formed to look at the
cataloging for cartographic electronic resources; their recommendations have been incorporated as
part of this document. The
suggested rule changes and new rules (see CC:DA/MAGERT/1999/1rev.) are the result of the committee’s work
to either incorporate new data or to clarify the existing text to reflect actual
cataloging practice of all five countries.
