tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10632279.post111549365503037669..comments2024-03-18T08:34:43.169-04:00Comments on Inquiring Librarian: Cataloging sound recordingsJenn Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02521865581380075952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10632279.post-1116050403386618422005-05-14T01:00:00.000-05:002005-05-14T01:00:00.000-05:00Jenn, you wrote:"As pointed out in this thread, cr...Jenn, you wrote:<BR/><BR/>"As pointed out in this thread, creating this content-level information is extremely expensive. But the networked world has the potential to change that. Much of this information has been created in structured form outside of the library environment, by record companies, retailers, and enthusiasts, but we don't make use of it. Right now, it's difficult to make use of it because our systems don't know how to talk to each other. It will take a great many baby steps, but I hope we can start down the road towards changing that."<BR/><BR/>I don't trust many record companies' data entry about musical works further than I can throw it. A lot of that data comes from All Music Guide or Muse. AMG is good, and has good staff doing research (on their classical end, which recently merged with the popular section), but they have two different philosophies behind this data entry. Classical works are indeed analytic, and clickable between all of the elements, but popular works are poorly indexed between the compositions and their instantiations--so it's a big mess. This isn't the kind of data that libraries should have in their catalogs. But it's a good start (at least the classical end). If we could combine that way of thinking, with the sort of attention to authority control that catalogers have typically striven to maintain--we'd be in good shape. <BR/><BR/>Ralph notes in his 2000 article on cataloging that catalogers are expected to add more data with less time and funding.<BR/><BR/>Thom P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10632279.post-1115510033757884162005-05-07T18:53:00.000-05:002005-05-07T18:53:00.000-05:00You have it exactly right about the vicious circle...You have it exactly right about the vicious circle of instrumentation codes and similar specialized MARC content for music retrieval. I've been in the position of considering retrieval and display possibilities for coded values, and the message I consistently heard was that the instrumentation codes (etc.) are supplied so rarely by catalogers that we'd be doing more harm than good by using them. Which provides less incentive for future catalogers to apply them. Which....waltchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.com