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Medium Term Programme 1998-2002
Scope statement
The section is an international forum to promote and co-ordinate the collection, storage and access to geographic and cartographic information. It provides communication between and professional development of mapcurators.
The section's objectives are to initiate projects and studies, the findings of which are published in the form of technical monographs, occasional papers, standards, cataloguing rules, manuals, directories, bibliographies, newsletters etc. In addition, close liaison with cartographic, geographic and related organisations is created and maintained.
Objectives 1998-2002
- Improve the international audience of the section by encouraging others to join from all parts of the world and reissue the section's brochure in all IFLA languages.
- Study the automation of bibliographic records, the standardisation of geographical authorities (in liaison with the Permanent UNIMARC committee) and the retrospective conversion of map catalogues.
- Monitor digital mapping and study problems implicit for map collections.
- Organise workshops for managing map and spatial data collections in developing countries.
Action Plan 1999-2001
- Update the section's map collections database in order to publish the 4th edition of the World directory of map collections.
Olivier Loiseaux
Chair
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