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Czech Geographical Bibliography Online GEOBIBLINE database news and cooperation with the ANL analytical database

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019

Abstract

The technical paper presents the recent development and extension of the Czech Geographical Bibliography online - GEOBIBLINE. It also highlights the growing importance of analytical description within the database.

In addition, it points to the collaboration of professional libraries and other institutions. The paper explains how and why the GEOBIBLINE project was created.

Through the reminders of the publishing activity on the main project results, it briefly maps out its entire development from 2008 to 2017. The authors also touch upon topics such as the current structure of bibliographic records in GEOBIBLINE, the number of full texts and geographic search tool for cartographic documents called MapRank search.

Attention is paid to the cataloging and subject control of graphics, including the analytical description of graphics. Subsequently, the paper focuses on the growing importance of the analytical description within GEOBIBLINE and the cooperation related with the analytical bibliography of the Czech Republic - ANL.

The result of this paper is the presentation of the GEOBIBLINE project in its entirety, along with the latest news on content, technology and institutional cooperation. The paper also helps to outline what the Czech geographical bibliography online can offer in collaboration with institutions and individuals.

All the potential users and collaborators from the professional and general public are presented with the GEOBIBLINE project with its content and technological innovations. It turns out that GEOBIBLINE can become an example of good practice not only in the creation of a bibliographic database itself and its functioning, but also in the bibliographic processing of non-traditional types of documents (old maps, vedutas, stereoscopic slides, etc.).