Harden, Jean wrote:
> Did you ever work in a music library?
Yes, I'm the subject specialist for music in our library, besides other
things.
I even went that far to create an online catalog for my own collection
of classical music. It is fully work centered, there's a record for
every single work, not for the physical items (disks). And it works with
uniform titles, what else.
Here's the listing for Mozart:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/bolero/page.php?urG=KET&urS=mozart,%20wolfg
and here Vivaldi:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/bolero/page.php?urG=KET&urA=28&urS=vivaldi
(Sorry, German interface and non-standard German uniform titles)
That's why I was suggesting that we employ uniform titles (I only just
didn't use that word because it seems now to be deprecated) for
identification of works and apply them much like subject headings.
The UT needs some amplification by qualifiers that refer to the edition
or other appropriate characteristics, and it will serve to bring
together what belongs together. For most intents and purposes, and of
course less perfect than if we had a full-fledged hierarchical
structure of WEMI records and URIs for everything.
B.Eversberg
Received on Fri Oct 23 2009 - 04:43:25 EDT