Hello,
I'm currently working on a project that explores the use of the EAD in
the context of printed music and music manuscripts. Based on my
initial observations of the EAD, it would seem that it doesn't seem to
capture the subtle nuances that it takes to appropriately categorize
things, such as the difference between a lyricist and a composer, or
first performance dates, etc. However, I do not have a Library
background, and am completely new to the application of EAD in any
context.
I have noticed that there are a couple of music archives listed on the
EAD site, and was wondering what, if any, challenges were faced when
encoding your collections. Did you opt to discard the musical terms
altogether, or did you capture the musical information some other way?
The ultimate goal for this sort of application, to give you a bit of
background, is to provide a type of digital collection software that is
fully EAD compliant, but allows the cataloger to capture information
about the musical nature of the documents. Is there an easy way to do
this already?
Thank you for your time,
Andrew Hankinson
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