Dr Lotz,
Yes, I can explain. The Great 78 Project is a community project for
the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records.
We announced it at ARSC this year and looking for others that might want
to join. http://great78.archive.org and the broad collection of user
contributed materials is: https://archive.org/details/78rpm
As part of this, the Internet Archive is hosting a reference collection
of transfers of donated 78's to help. We hope we can work with others
to build a large collection, again for preservation research and
discovery. Around these transfers we are trying to link to whatever
metadata we can. Our transfers are hosted at
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood
As the website says:
Please join <http://great78.archive.org/join-us> this project to:
* *Share knowledge.* Help improve the metadata, curate the collection,
contact collectors, do research on the corpus, etc.
* *Include your digitized collection.* If you have already digitized
78s or related books or media, we’d like to include your work in the
collection.
* *Digitize your collection.* We’ve worked hard to make digitization
safe, fast and affordable, so if you’d like to digitize your
collection we can help.
* *Donate 78s.* We have 200,000 78s, but we are always looking for
more. We will digitize your collection and preserve the physical
discs for the long term.
does this help? Any ideas on what we should do or do differently?
-brewster
On 7/8/17 6:39 AM, Dr Rainer E. Lotz wrote:
> can anyone explain the rationale behind this website or project???
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> -brewster
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>> On 7/7/17 7:16 PM, Steve Smolian wrote:
>>> Hi, Brewster,
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>>> Do you have the digital files compiled by Alan Kelly of the
>>> Gramophone Company's matrix and issue numbers?
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>>> Steve Smolian
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brewster Kahle
>>> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 2:46 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Finding dates for 78's
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>>> 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.
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>>> We got just under 1/2 of them to have dates:
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>>> 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:
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>>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=shiptracking%3A%2216651_16727_16776_16831%22%20AND%20NOT%20date%3A%2A
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>>> 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.
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>>> -brewster
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