A belated addendum to this thread (and by the way I would also whole-heartedly
recommend Discogs, although in my experience its coverage of classical records
is well behind that of, say, privately pressed folk LPs or 7 singles on
Wifflefist): take a look at this post from Europeana's Valentine Charles,
Extending the Europeana Data Model for richer descriptions of sounds
materials
http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/extending-edm-for-richer-descriptions-sounds.
It's hard-core stuff but a very interesting discussion of the levels of
complexity in sound recordings, and how to represent them as cultural heritage
objects and digital representations. I think this evening I'll map Discogs'
schema to the EDM Profile for Sounds...
All the best,
Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
Technical Web Manager
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Bryan
Kennedy
Sent: 20 February 2015 20:05
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, rb, 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
bkenn...@smm.org 651.221.2522
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Matt Wheeler mwhee...@pmm-maine.org
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.
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Matt Wheeler,
Photography Archives,
Penobscot Marine Museum
Archives (207) 548-2529 ext. 211
5 Church Street, PO Box 498
Searsport, Maine 04974
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