can anyone explain the rationale behind this website or project???
Am 08.07.2017 07:15, schrieb Brewster Kahle:
> The Archive of Contemporary Music have a couple of reference books to
> date 78's but mostly they are using websearch. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> We are planning on transfering 400,000 sides, so we could use all the
> help we can get. We are following this path based on a comment David
> Seubert made, as I recall, that the most useful metadata are date,
> genre, and location.
>
> -brewster
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> On 7/7/17 7:16 PM, Steve Smolian wrote:
>> Hi, Brewster,
>>
>> Do you have the digital files compiled by Alan Kelly of the Gramophone Company's matrix and issue numbers?
>>
>> Steve Smolian
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Finding dates for 78's
>>
>> We just got the new ~3000 78rpm transfers from george blood's company-- fun! We have a script that leverages the dates on 78discography.com and discogs.com to put dates on them.
>>
>> We got just under 1/2 of them to have dates:
>>
>>
>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=shiptracking%3A%2216651_16727_16776_16831%22%20AND%20date%3A%2A
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>> and these don't have dates:
>>
>>
>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=shiptracking%3A%2216651_16727_16776_16831%22%20AND%20NOT%20date%3A%2A
>>
>>
>> If you are interested in researching any of these for dates, genres, anything that you find fun, and put the information in the review.
>> There are interns at the Archive of Contemporary Music doing this-- we
>> have a slack channel for anyone that wants to join in. For those that
>> get really into it, we can grant privs to edit the items themselves.
>>
>> -brewster
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