Created image using multiple parts of images

By Anonymous on Sat, 11/01/2014 - 14:55

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Hello,

I have created digital image of a map. The map shows locations along the route of a ship sailing from Liverpool to NYC in 1852. The actual locations were taken from newspaper articles reporting that they spoke to the Captain along the route. The map was created using a downloaded map and a vector image of a sailing ship. My plan is to cite the actual locations from the newspaper in the text. This is the citation I have come up with for the actual image which I titled Ship Richard Morse Route June - July 1852.

Ann C Gilchrest, Ship Richard Morse Route June-July 1852 is a modified version of "N. Atlantic Ocean," David Rumsey Map Collection, (http://www.davidrumsey.com : accessed 31 October 2014); citing Alexander Johnston, Basin of the North Atlantic Ocean (Edinburgh & London: W & A.K. Johnston & William Blackwood & Sons, 1861) p. 4. The map was modified by cropping and adding location markers. Ship images used for location markers were created by Eric Fritz, Old Ships, Vintage Vectors, (http://vintagevectors.com : accessed 31 October 2014). 

My question has to do with where I should put the statement  detailing the modifications I made to the image? My first thought was to put it at the end, but it seemed to fit better before the attribution of the image used for the location markers. Now I am not so sure.

Thank you,

Ann Gilchrest

Submitted byEEon Sat, 11/01/2014 - 19:02

Ann,

Coincidentally, I've been sitting here going through some of those same dilemmas, as I modify licensed stock images to make graphics for EE's blog.

Like you, I decided to credit myself first, because I'm the creator of the adapted work. The point on which I have differed from you lies in the title of the new work. I chose not to create a title. Your creation needs one. But, might I ask, what is the rationale for putting the title of your unpublished map in italics as though it were a standalone publication, rather than the traditional quotation marks used for unpublished materials or individually titled items within a larger, published work.

On different but related subject or two:

  • You can drop those commas before the open parentheses. The parens tell your reader "this is further data about the element to which this parenthetical material is attached." You would not then add a comma to splice apart the parenthetical statement from the predecessor that it modifies.
  • In the discusion that you've added to your citation, in which you cite a second website [Eric Fritz, Old Ships, Vintage Vectors, (http://vintagevectors.com : accessed 31 October 2014)], what is Vintage Vectors and why does it sit between the title of the website and the URL of the website? If it is the creator of the website, then the creator's name goes before the name of the website, but then you have Eric Fritz's name in that position. If Vintage Vectors is the name of the website and "Old Ships" is the name of a paper design at that website, then the paper design would not be italicized because it's not a standalone publication. It's just one item offered by a larger pub. Therefore, "Old Ships" would be in quotation marks and Vintage Vectors would be italicized.

Submitted byagilchreston Sat, 11/01/2014 - 23:21

One of the items I have diffuculty with is when to use quotation marks vs. italics. Hopefully I will remember the unpublished vs. published! Thank you.

The second website is Vintage Vectors. "Old Ships" is the title of the vector images that I downloaded created by Eric Fritz. I only used one of several vector images that came with the download. My thought was Eric is the author of "Old Ships" which was published at Vintage Vectors. Should this be cited like a chapter in a book that has numerous authors?

Ann

 

 

Submitted byEEon Sun, 11/02/2014 - 13:16

Ann, the italics vs. quote marks issue really is simple. As you say, there are just two things to remember.

  • Published and standalone item
  • "Unpublished or Titled Part of a Larger Published item"

With situations such as the one you're dealing with, you could handle the author-attribution in either of two ways:

  1. Individual Creator-Author, "Title of Individual Work," Website/Publication Title (publication data).
  2. Publication Creator-Author, Website/Publication Title (publication data), item type, Individual Creator-Author, "Title of Individual Work."

As with chapters in books, databases at websites, etc., the approach we choose will usually depend upon whether we have just one item to cite from that Website/Publication or whether we have many to cite. If we have just one item to cite, then Approach 1 is usually the easiest. If we have many to cite, then Approach 2 is best for data-entry.