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 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. > ______________________ > > 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: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > 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/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ > >
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