This is really interesting- I recently inherited my grandfather's record player and record collection, and I've started a wee blog (www.listeningtomyelders.wordpress.com) about it. His records are mostly big band/swing and some comedy, and I've been looking for a good way to keep some data about it. It was going to be one of my weekend projects.
I think I'll give Discogs a whirl and maybe report back on that. As a collections person, it's always fun to try out new programs. Cheers, Tracey Tracey Berg-Fulton Collections Database Associate Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [email protected] 412.622.6509 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryan Kennedy Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 3:05 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] side project I'd put in a vote for using Discogs - http://www.discogs.com I've cataloged about 1500 of my personal vinyl collection on there and found it to be quite a huge improvement over my own local database efforts. The biggest advantage of Discogs is the ability to avoid data entry that's already been done. When I want to catalog a new record, all I have to do was search any of the identifying details on the physical record and low and behold, there was a rigorously crowd edited record with linked data on all the details of the record. I just needed to mark it as "in my collection." I can only speak for some genres (punk, rock, r&b, and reggae) but the number of existing entires for records is surprisingly good. I'm not sure if this is the case for opera. Even if your record isn't in the database, Discogs provides you an excellent data structure to enter your own information. And you get some warm fuzzies for contributing information to a public database that other will benefit from. Discogs is run by a private company, but they've been around for several years now. You can export all of your data in csv files, which I regularly do, just in case they up and disappear. You can review their contribution rules and structures here: http://www.discogs.com/help/doc/submission-guidelines-release I'd be curious what some more professional collection folks think of this approach. My experience is more as a personal record collector [nerd]. bk ---------------------------------------------------- bryan kennedy director, exhibit media science museum of minnesota [email protected] 651.221.2522 ---------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Matt Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Good afternoon-- > > Someone recently asked me to get involved with her efforts to catalog > her father's collection of opera on vinyl, which will eventually be digitized. > > Does anyone know of: > > > 1. a metadata schema suited to musicology > 2. a controlled vocabulary for same > > Many thanks in advance. > ______________________ > > Matt Wheeler, > Photography Archives, > Penobscot Marine Museum > Archives (207) 548-2529 ext. 211 > 5 Church Street, PO Box 498 > Searsport, Maine 04974 > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
