Diane Cowen, Virtual Services Librarian. Soundswell local music project: Santa Cruz public library Cowend@santacruzpl.org. @groovacious
David Dodd, Sonoma County Library
Other communities have music/musician discovery services
Seattle band map.com
Sonomalibrary.org/community. Local author community website already in place...wanted to do the same type of thing for local music community
General emphasis on the local community, artists, artisans, food, small business
Local music food bank fund raisers CDs
One of David's favorite books...The atlas of new librarianship. By David Lankes
Pretty much unknown but wonderful musicians
How gather info for database
- Personal
- Crowd sourcing
- Personal interviews
- Google search [Sonoma and music]
- ReadCd and liner notes
- Use Facebook and google together to discover more bands/musicians
Put info into excel database
Also added Photos and Posters/fliers--Collect and digitize
Partnership for larger regional music archives
Community media center
Need to follow up with him as he ran out of time to explain the discovery system he uses.
Santa Cruz music project
Local music project. Received a LSta eureka grant for funding
Wanted it to be a Geographical discovery tool
Wanted to include Compensation & copyright for the musicians. Songs are inclued in a downloadable database for certain about of time (2yrs) under public rights. Then not downloadable but placed in historical archive.
Payment to musicians. Sliding scale. Based on number of songs the musicians donate, $50-100
Discovery and access tool
Historical archive
Goals
Seen as a shaper of the local arts community
Stimulate value of local musician communities.
Based on Iowa city project idea!
Building the database and data entry
Omeka. Digital archiving software. Dublin core metadata authority
Ripping and scanning - more time consuming than she anticipated
Soundcloud. Has plugin for omeka. But Soundcloud is Not able to handle authentication to library cards, so needed to create an authentication tool. They wanted to become curators of the material and only allow access to their own library patrons.
After authenticating library card, it downloads a zip file of the selected song
She mentioned issues with getting the musicians to follow through with providing their digital files.
Says Problems are worth it though
The future
- 2yr cycles of collection overturn
- Collect other digital files, fliers, interviews,
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