Hi, Jonathan,
I have been corresponding off-and-on with a data tape restorer on the
East Coast and I suggested baking some of the old data tapes and I think
he's had some success with that for data.
Sony multi-track digital audio tapes are responding well to baking and
these are nothing more or less than data tapes.
Hopefully, if the tapes were not damaged in the recovery effort, baking
will allow them to be recovered. Often, playing a tape that requires
baking without baking it will do irreparable harm to it.
If the data can be recovered, hopefully the holding locations could be
matched to the original data and linked and then added to the WorldCat
database.
Cheers,
Richard
On 2015-07-23 10:26 AM, Jonathan Manton wrote:
> Tim
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> Here is what I understand about the current state of the results of the RDI project, at least from our perspective here at Stanford. I would encourage others who either worked on the project or with better knowledge of it than I to correct me where necessary.
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> The index was loaded into RLIN. However, when RLIN moved to Worldcat, the locations of the holding institutions for each record were dropped. You can limit your search in Worldcat to Rigler-Deutsch records in one of at least two ways (thanks to Jay Weitz from OCLC for pointing this out on the MLA list recently):
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> · Including both of the following Notes index strings: nt:rigler and nt:deutsch
> · Including both of the following Cataloging Source index strings: cs=arsc and cs= rlinp
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> As for the original index and label photography, Stanford holds copies of both on Microfilm / Microfiche. We also hold a set of 31 computer tapes from the time of the project, that supposedly contain all of the data from the project (http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/6762360). A Stanford University Libraries alum, Jerry Persons, led a project in 2013 aimed at trying to recover this data. Unfortunately, it was discovered that the majority of these tapes could no longer be read. Results from this attempted recovery project along with a copy of the final report from the RDI project (from 1984), can be found here http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/jd276dz9994.
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> Jerry Persons is still working with our digitization people here at Stanford to try and digitize the label photography microfilms we hold.
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> I hope this helps
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> Jon
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> Jonathan Manton
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> On Jul 22, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Tim Brooks wrote:
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> Another ARSC history question. Does anyone know for sure what eventually happened to the output of the million dollar Rigler and Deutsch Record Index project, both the label photography and the computerized index of 615,000 78 rpm discs?
> After the release of the "rough" index in the mid 1980s there were mighty efforts to make the index MARC-compatible, and integrate it into the more widely used RLIN (which eventually merged with OCLC I believe). Did this ever happen?
> It appears that only two or three dozen libraries ever acquired the label microfilm and database microfiche, and the company that produced them (Mi-Kal) went out of business. I assume they are not available today. Does the data survive today in any current form?
> Thanks,
> Tim
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