BAYLOR UNIVERSITY STREAMING RECITAL RECORDINGS

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CURRENT COLLECTION

Baylor School of Music• About 400 students• Roughly 300 performances• 225 recordings• 35 Graduate recitals• No criteria for what is and is not

recorded

CURRENT COLLECTION

Legacy

Collection

CURRENT COLLECTION

Legacy collection • Mix of records• Card catalog (no longer

accessible)• Finding aids• Basic AACR2 bibliographic

records in MARC with enhanced 505 fields• Full level RDA records in MARC

CURRENT RECORDING PRACTICE

Recital is recorded directly to CD

CD is ripped to computer for tracking

Three copies are made

One copy is given to the students

Two copies for archival and circulating

practices

CURRENT RECORDING PRACTICE

Historically,

there has been a

several year delay

before recordings

were received for

cataloging

MOVING FORWARD

What initiated this discussion?• Preservation• Digitization of recital programs• Possibly linking audio to

digitized programs• Move of other resources and

institutes towards streaming

PROPOSED DIGITIZATION

Record recital in WAV format

Metadata is added and tracks notated in

real time

MP3 created, and both files uploaded to

Box

PROPOSED DIGITIZATION

WAV file moved to preservation server

MP3 moved to ContentDM

Student worker adds metadata

Work is quality controlled and

released

IMPACT ON LIBRARY END

Storage cost is minimal

Already have an existing infrastructure

capable of supporting the desired

formats

Current proposal calls for ContentDM

platform• Dublin Core• Discoverable via federated search

IMPACT ON LIBRARY END

The dreaded C word

COPYRIGHT

Works in public domain vs. under

copyright

Rights of performer

Making digital collection open or closed• ContentDM allows for all or none

IMPACT ON SCHOOL OF MUSIC END

Sizable upgrade in equipment

Restructure of recording studio

Waiting on a dean to sign off

PAY-OFF

Collection is kept current

Questions about recitals can be

answered

Limiting misplaced/mislabeled

recordings

Students are accessing a format

they prefer

CONCLUSION

Further planning on hold until permanent

Dean for School of Music signs off

Everyone seems amenable to the idea

Further discussion needed • Copyright in regards to collection openness• Cataloging

CONCLUSION