Cataloging
Today Mark and I spent about an hour trying to figure out the 'Taming of the shrew' pieces and how they should be entered in terms of main entry and uniform titles, etc. Very confusing because it's not clear who is ultimately responsible for the music of the entire work - it seems that multiple people were responsible for different parts of it (it was a very good review of AACR2 Chapter 21). Thus, main entry goes to the particular person who seems to have written the music for the individual song, uniform title is simply the song title (plus Vocal score, since it seems reasonable that these were originally orchestrated), and added uniform title entry for Taming of the shrew (Opera) and Shakespeare...|tTaming of the shrew are warranted. Wow, my head is still spinning from that one...
So, I fixed those up. Mark also noticed that I had forgotten the engraver, so I added that information for all three pieces. I found lithographer and printer information on the next piece in the volume, so I added that to the record. I also spent a bit of time trying to figure out how to deal with the 'Swiss boy' song from the Tyrolese melodies. Most records in OCLC for the collection of these songs have main entry as Moscheles, even though it appears he just arranged them. These were songs (presumably Tyrolienne/Tyrolese folk songs) that a family called the Rainer family sang in concerts on a trip to England in 1827, making these folk melodies very popular. Moscheles then arranged these for one to four voices with piano. So, my inclination is to not make him main entry, use the song title as the main entry, and make 'Tyrolese melodies' a series statement and a title added entry. Another wrinkle is that the original German title is listed with the English title in the caption. Various records in OCLC treated this differently, and I'm not sure which is best. I'll review some rules and such. There is also an added "song" at the end, with different words (3 verses) to the same tune. Different author of the words and different arranger. Not sure how best to present that information...
I had no idea I'd be taking the entire time on cataloging today, but I definitely learned a lot!
I sent a message to Andrew and Cassandra today, asking if they had any more detailed information about BibClass, so that I could start the whole comparison/mapping thing from MARCXML and try to figure out how it's going to translate to Dublin Core. I found quite a bit of info on the website, as reported last week, but it would be nice if the allowed fields, their "tags" and what goes in them was nicely laid out in a table somewhere... That might be up to me!
Hours today: 3 (4:15-7:15pm)
Hours this week: 3
Total hours completed: 89.5
So, I fixed those up. Mark also noticed that I had forgotten the engraver, so I added that information for all three pieces. I found lithographer and printer information on the next piece in the volume, so I added that to the record. I also spent a bit of time trying to figure out how to deal with the 'Swiss boy' song from the Tyrolese melodies. Most records in OCLC for the collection of these songs have main entry as Moscheles, even though it appears he just arranged them. These were songs (presumably Tyrolienne/Tyrolese folk songs) that a family called the Rainer family sang in concerts on a trip to England in 1827, making these folk melodies very popular. Moscheles then arranged these for one to four voices with piano. So, my inclination is to not make him main entry, use the song title as the main entry, and make 'Tyrolese melodies' a series statement and a title added entry. Another wrinkle is that the original German title is listed with the English title in the caption. Various records in OCLC treated this differently, and I'm not sure which is best. I'll review some rules and such. There is also an added "song" at the end, with different words (3 verses) to the same tune. Different author of the words and different arranger. Not sure how best to present that information...
I had no idea I'd be taking the entire time on cataloging today, but I definitely learned a lot!
I sent a message to Andrew and Cassandra today, asking if they had any more detailed information about BibClass, so that I could start the whole comparison/mapping thing from MARCXML and try to figure out how it's going to translate to Dublin Core. I found quite a bit of info on the website, as reported last week, but it would be nice if the allowed fields, their "tags" and what goes in them was nicely laid out in a table somewhere... That might be up to me!
Hours today: 3 (4:15-7:15pm)
Hours this week: 3
Total hours completed: 89.5
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