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Instructions
Familiarize yourself with the International Standard Book Description for Cartographic Material. This cataloging system is easily accessible and understandable, no matter what language you speak.
Decide whether you'd like to organize your antique map collection by using cartobibliography or the usual antique map cataloging system. Cartobibliography catalogs antique maps using only bear elements while a regular antique map cataloging system includes more descriptive manuscript data like condition, coloring and damage.
Set up a simple antique map cataloging database using spreadsheet or database software programs.
Type in all the elements that you would like to have in your catalog. Many antique map collectors include information such as the map's title, the cartographer's name, the map's date, the map's place of origin, subtitles, border information, height and width, scale, plate states, price and current location.
Add special notes to the descriptions of the antique maps. Some maps contain special notations about its history or other defining features.
Input all of your map's information into the electronic cataloging system.
Create a preface to your catalog. Include information about the maps and your history as a collector.
Sort your antique map collection electronically. Learn the different ways you may retrieve information.
Make a copy of your antique map catalog. Print the catalog or save it to a hard drive. Update your backup copies as your collection grows.