Cataloging at 33 1/3: Repurposing Metadata from Discogs.com to

Catalog Sound Recordings at Michigan State University

Romanies!

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Records!

Visual Consumer. 2012. http://visualconsumer.blogspot.com/2012/12/obligatory-animated-cat-gif_4.html

Data Entry● Get or become a “Discogs Wizard”● Easier than MARC● But still has rules

Discogs Access

XSLT Transformation

Authorized Access Point Lookup

Genre/style mapping

DISCOGS GENRE Jazz DISCOGS STYLE Avante-garde Jazz*****************************************************LCGFT 655 _7 JazzLCSH 650 _0 Avante-garde (Music)DISCOGS GENRE Hip HopDISCOGS STYLE Conscious*****************************************************LCGFT 655 _7 Rap (Music)

DISCOGS GENRE LatinDISCOGS STYLE Corrido*****************************************************LCGFT 655 _7 Corridos (Music)

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Cool!

Ok I guess...

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Network of Discogs crowd-sourced musical

“styles”

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Into the catalog

Entire process

ResourcesDiscogs APIhttps://www.discogs.com/developers/Code (Python and XSLT)https://gitlab.msu.edu/msu-libraries/discogs

Thanks!

Joshua Barton | bartonjp@msu.eduDevin Higgins | higgi135@mail.lib.msu.edu

Lucas Mak | makw@mail.lib.msu.eduAutumn Faulkner | autumn@msu.edu