Re: [ARSCLIST] Database template - Artist Instrumentation Project

[Eric Jacobs <ericj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe ARSC could survey catalogers working at or with ARSC
member organizations, and thus uncover some defacto standards.

ARSC may not be the right organization to set standards in
this area, but it could certainly foster communication and
research.

This would be a good project perhaps for the AAA group
within ARSC.

Eric Jacobs
The Audio Archive


---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:12:57 -0400
>From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Database template - Artist Instrumentation Project
>To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx>
>> Perhaps helpful would be for an organization like ARSC to publish an
>official
>> list of those items of information that are of most use in identifying and
>> finding sound recordings, in a simple outline form, ranked in order of
>importanc
>> e or usefulness, that people can use to structure their own database
>> application. This might lead to enough standardization to make file
>conversions
>> practical.
>What I would like to see ARSC do (and offered to do a program on sometime
>back) is to establish and define...including name, type and size...an
>"official" definition for the necessary set of "core" fields to allow
>at least minimal, but useful, data exchange between users of different
>database applications! Each record collector, or each institution
>archiving sound recordings, has his/her/its set of "essential" fields
>to adequately document phonorecords (and other sound items). If we
>could agree on this set of core fields, we could share data!
>
>Coment ca?
>
>Steven C. Barr