Re: Ladino Database

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Further to my earlier post...

The All Music Guide is available on a CD from ?Five Star Software? which
would let you download listing directly into a database (their database?)
Again, the usual caveats: bad coverage of Jewish music, and lots of boo-boos.

Good luck,

Joel

At 12:33 PM 11/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, I will try to answer your questions, interleaved. Thanks for your
>interest.
>
>Joel
>
>At 06:38 AM 11/18/98 EDT, Robert Wiener wrote:
>>Joel:
>>
>>Wow!  It seems like quite a project.  I have an old 4x6 card catalogue
>that I stopped once I anticipated that computers could create a database
>more efficiently.  (Would that be 15 years ago?)  Unfortunately, I've never
>taken that step and now 1/2 of my LPs and all of my cassettes and CDs are
>uncatalogued.  So I'd appreciate advice from any list members. 
>>
>>Can you (and others) share with us your experience and recommendations for
>such a venture?  What software to use, how to set it up (e.g., what
>information/fields to include), transliteration consistency...?  
>
>***I have engaged someone to develop it in MS Access for me. We have just
>had an extensive discussion of record cataloging software, etc. on the 78
>mailing list. I can send a digest of same to anyone that would like to
>email me a request privately.
>
>I am absolutely punting on transliteration consistency right now - far too
>big a nut to crack for the hundreds of different song titles (and total
>thousands of songs.) Ultimately I hope to do a table of equivalents (i.e.,
>this song denoted x equals that song denoted y) that would let users do a
>definitive search.
>
>I've heard of programs that read CD information on the CD-rom.  Do you know
>of them?  
>
>*** All they can do is get the number of tracks and their timings.  Any
>actual song information is not embedded on the CD.
>
>I've also heard of some databases of recordings that you can use as a
>source so that you don't have to do all the entries yourself -- it seems
>that you electronically check off the albums you own.  Has anyone used
them?  
>
>*** www.cddb.com. They are unlikely to have a very good representation of
>Jewish music. Also, beware of errors in the entry.
>
>Would a scanner help in downloading the information?  
>
>***I think not. You would have to be a ferocious proofreader for any OCR
>text (actually, you have to be a ferocious proofreader for titles you enter
>yourself, too.)
>
>What sort of hardware do you need (for example, for a collection of about
>4,000 LPs, 2,000 CDs, and 1,000 cassettes?  
>
>***Virtually anything even remotely current will do fine.
>
>What do you wish that you had known before you began the project (in
>addition to how much time it would take)?  
>
>***I would not have spent any time trying to develop the database structure
>on my own in Access, and would have engaged someone right away.
>
>Are there any resources for funding such a venture? 
>
>***There may be. I haven't investigated it, since I want complete control
>over the project.
>
>For those of you who have created databases for Yiddish or Hebrew, did you
>do it in both that language and Hebrew? 
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Bob
>>
>>
>
>
>Joel Bresler
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