Re: arsclist record archive

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Smolian" <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: arsclist record archive


> As a dealer and professional appraiser, let me suggest you do something
more
> rewarding with your time.  It is nearly certain that you won't recover
> minimum wage or anything close to it for the time you'll be investing.
> Steven Smolian
As I understood the post, Mr. Weber was looking for a data archive...as it
turned out, on LP records...with the intention of copying data records on
phonorecords he (or his institution) holds, which would reduce the amount
of data entry needed to catalog the holdings. As I see it, much of the point
of collections, particularly institutional collections, is to keep an
adequate
and current catalog of the holdings; first, so that the collector
(individual
or institutional) knows exactly what they do (and don't) own, to avoid
duplicate acquisitions, and, second, because many users (in the case of
institutional collections) are looking for the information rather than the
actual sound contents of the recordings. The alternative..."oh, if we have
it it's somewhere in that stuff on those shelves over there..." seems an
illogical way to run a library (and possibly a personal collection?).

Now, if Mr. Weber was actually thinking about creating the necessary
vast database on "every LP ever recorded" (I assumed he was hoping
someone had) I would agree that there would be little likelihood of
economic benefit...such is the world (better he create the next toy fad!)
It would have to be a labour of love (or inexplicable obsession)! Thing
is, we do have a few amongst us (i.e. Brian Rust) who are driven
to create such things, for which we who use them should be eternally
grateful! We have examples of, and an understanding of, our history
becuase there exist folks crazy enough to save stuff, and others to
create catalogs of it...the invention of the computer simplifies the
latter task about 99% (ever think of the vast number of 3x5 cards
that must have given their lives for the first editions of ADBD and JR!)

As an appraiser and dealer, you should be thankful there are a few of
us who create the references you probably use on a daily basis!
(meant as a comment only, BTW...no disparagement intended!)
Steven C. Barr
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruno Weber" <bweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 9:34 AM
> Subject: arsclist record archive
>
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > we have a private record collection (classics and jazz) of
> > a few thousand vinyl lps. We have decided to at least think
> > about making a listing of the collection for more efficient searching.
> >
> > Now, can anybody give us a hint whether we could get the
> > most important information from an electronic archive possibly
> > on the web? My plan is to search this archive with the record
> > code, say SLS  785, and to get the information on that record
> > for our list. We would need the composer, artist, date of
> > recording, title(s) etc.
> > Since I am able to do some programming it shouldn't be a problem
> > to automize the process of getting the information needed out
> > of that archive.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any help
> >
> > Bruno Weber
> >
> > --
> > Bruno Weber, Ph.D.
> > University Hospital
> > Depts. of Neurology &
> > Nuclear Medicine
> > Frauenklinikstrasse 26
> > CH-8091 Zurich
> > Tel: ++41 1 255 55 79
> > Fax: ++41 1 255 44 29
> >
> >
> >
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