We have made available the metadata within this website for onward re-use and download. The metadata is available in two forms:
- Stevenson_all_records.csv - a *.CSV file of all the Stevenson records.
- Stevenson_bounding_boxes.js - a *.GeoJSON file of all the Stevenson records with bounding boxes / spatial extents.
Read further information on this metadata and on geocoding and tracing polygons to create this data.
Metadata fields
The metadata fields in the files above are described further under Metadata in the Project workflow. The original metadata came from the two inventories for the collection. Standardised controlled vocabulary fields (shown in italics below) were added to this to aid search and retrieval.
| Field | Description | Example |
| Survey_ID | Unique Stevenson ID, 1-2147 | 1 |
| NAME | Name of creator - engineer, designer, draughtsman | Stevenson, David, 1815-1886 |
| SHELFMARK | Unique map/plan number reference in the Library | MS.5844, No.1 |
| COUNTY | Pre-1970s county name the plan was within | Argyll |
| PLACE | Nearest town/city the plan was within | Edinburgh |
| SUBJECT | Primary subject - Bridge, Building/Monument, Canal, Harbour, Lighthouse, Machinery, Reference Material, Railway, River, Road, Water Supply | Bridge |
| DESCRIPTION | Brief description of item content (usually taken from original inventory) | Dalkeith. Proposed Bridge; details of masonry |
| DATE_NO | Standardised four-digit date | 1875 |
| DATE_MINIMUM | Minimum date | 1660 |
| DATE_MAXIMUM | Maximum date | 1940 |
| INVENTORY | Brief descrition of physical media of object | Series of three drawings |
| OBJECT | Flat or folded | Flat |
| SIZE | Physical size of original item | 683 mm x 1020 mm |
| PHYSICAL | Physical medium of original item (eg. Paper, linen, oil cloth) | Paper |
| MEDIA | Drawing media or substance | Hand coloured; Ink |
| COLOUR | Whether coloured or uncoloured | Colour |
| Map_Link | 0 or 1. If 1, then a bounding box exists, with link to map bounding box, taking the form - https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/#id=[Survey_ID] | https://maps.nls.uk/projects/stevenson/#id=1 |
| IMAGE | National Library of Scotland image ID - add prefix 'https://maps.nls.uk/view/' to view zoomable image, ie. https://maps.nls.uk/view/[IMAGE] | https://maps.nls.uk/view/218517257 |
Re-use
This metadata collection is free of known copyright restrictions.
We believe that all the Stevenson images that have been scanned are out-of-copyright. For further details visit the Map Images website’s copyright page.
