Re: [ARSCLIST] Database template - Artist Instrumentation Project

["Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Phillips" <scottp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Where do I sign ?
I keep posting to this effect, and threads dissipate, and nuthin' gets
done...
sign wherever, and as often, as possible!
Steven C. Barr
stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steven C. Barr
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:13 PM
> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Database template - Artist Instrumentation
> Project
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx>
> > Perhaps helpful would be for an organization like ARSC to publish an
> official
> > list of those items of information that are of most use in identifying
>
> > and finding sound recordings, in a simple outline form, ranked in
> > order of
> importanc
> > e or usefulness, that people can use to structure their own database
> > application. This might lead to enough standardization to make file
> conversions
> > practical.
> What I would like to see ARSC do (and offered to do a program on
> sometime
> back) is to establish and define...including name, type and size...an
> "official" definition for the necessary set of "core" fields to allow at
> least minimal, but useful, data exchange between users of different
> database applications! Each record collector, or each institution
> archiving sound recordings, has his/her/its set of "essential" fields to
> adequately document phonorecords (and other sound items). If we could
> agree on this set of core fields, we could share data!
>
> Coment ca?
>
> Steven C. Barr
>