Re: arsclist storing

[Daniel Leech-Wilkinson <daniel.leech-wilkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:43 12/07/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>What kind of research requires that they handle the records? Can you do a
>high res scan of the label and give a detailed physical description? I would
>think that would satisfy the majority of research questions. Anything beyond
>that you could handle on an individual basis.

Not sure that I agree about this. Matrix numbers (almost never fully
printed on the label) and other data stamped outside the label don't always
show up adequately in a scan. Besides which, as scholars become
increasingly inclined to think of 78s as primary sources, they want to see
them just as they do other kinds of sources like manuscripts. In particular
they want to experiment with different stylus sizes and shapes, different
equalisation settings, and so on, and it's just not practical to do that at
one remove, somebody else doing the work and playing back the results. We
need at least some archives where hands-on work is encouraged. That's going
to be our policy at the emerging King's sound archive, anyway. 

Best,
Dan



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