Bob,

Take a look at METS: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

Daniel


At 12:23 PM 10/14/2004, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>We're deepening the cataloging of the Carpenter collection to include
>item-level entries of sound recordings. Imagine an LP record with 6 tracks
>digitized as a single file. We have 179 objects of this sort containing a
>thousand or so discrete items. This gives rise to two questions to this list:
>
>1) In the way that xpointer can point to a portion of an XML file, is there
>a parallel standard to point to a portion of a WAV of mp3 file?
>
>2) Assuming the answer to the above is, for the moment, negative, what
>would be the "best practice" tags to use inside the item <did> to tag a)
>the start time within the sound file for the particular item (e.g. 02:37
>meaning 2 min 37 seconds from the start) and b) the duration (since
><extent> is only allowed as a sub-element of <physdesc> which applies to
>the higher level where we catalog the whole physical (and now digital)
>object).
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Bob Walser
>
>
>Robert Young Walser  - [log in to unmask]
>The James Madison Carpenter Project
>http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/carpenter/
>Office telephone 1-612-374-4364
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