Re: jewish music databases/Keynote

[Francesco Spagnolo <yuval...>]

Aleph has this feature quite well developed. Of course, it is out of 
reach for anybody's pockets...
Francesco


>
>
>So, what you really need is a "key" that ties all umpteen versions 
>of a song title back to a controlled title, and in reverse ties this 
>controlled title to all umpteen versions of a song title. That way 
>if a searcher has just one title or a key word from it, you can find 
>every other. But as I say, this is not trivial. Ladino, for example, 
>has no standard orthography in Romance characters. This a full-time 
>multi-month effort just for Sephardic titles, which of course have 
>to reckoned as a small subset of the Yiddish titles and much larger 
>corpus of Jewish music. It's not going happen "organically" as more 
>titles are added to a database; instead it will take a concerted 
>effort, most likely under one person's editorial control (for 
>Sephardic titles) or one supreme editor and a team's control (for 
>Yiddish and other titles) to make any sort of progress.
>
>Layla tov,
>
>Joel
>

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