Determine roll type for all 136 items tagged as "general"

[caaster]

This is a task for Jerry to complete, but it is being tracked by Cathy. I asked for a completion date of 4 Dec 2019, but nil heard so far. Checking in with Jerry today on the status.

Here is my email to Jerry:

From: Catherine A. Aster Sent: Monday, November 25, 2019 9:30 AM To: Jerry L McBride jlmcbrid@stanford.edu Subject: Catching up re piano rolls

Hi Jerry,

Thank you kindly for your email last week, letting me know you were out sick. Hopefully you are better now! There was nothing that required your urgent input, so I left you alone to rest up!

Here is where we would benefit from your assistance -- described below. This is about the lingering Argo tag cleanup that needs to be done by Tony (with your help).

What I am noticing is that our numbers in Argo currently -- by roll type -- are very close but not an exact match to the numbers you provided on your prioritized roll type list. I think we can get close to or perhaps completely resolve these discrepancies, if you let us know the roll type for each of the rolls registered in Argo with the tag "General."

Here are the current totals by roll type in Argo (they may just be registered, or also scanned, and some are accessioned):

Here are the top several roll types/total numbers on your scanning prioritization list:

Attached to this email, you'll find a spreadsheet listing the titles, PURLs and druids for all 136 items in the General category. Please fill out the column labeled "Roll type & manufacturer" so that Tony can change the Argo tags appropriately.

What is a reasonable due date for you? How about 4 December -- will that work?

Many thanks, Cathy

Cathy Aster She/her/hers Services Manager Spotlight at Stanford Electronic Theses & Dissertations Liaison to DRMC for Map Projects https://library.stanford.edu/people/caster

Digital Library Systems & Services Stanford Libraries mobile: 650.619.3930

[caaster]

Update: Jerry should be able to complete this soon. He has been sick, so he's catching up. Within a few days.

[caaster]

From: Jerry L McBride jlmcbrid@stanford.edu Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:26 PM To: Catherine A. Aster caster@stanford.edu Subject: RE: STATUS UPDATE REQUESTED: Re: Catching up re piano rolls

Cathy,

Here is what I have. You’ll see that there are 9 test rolls that I cannot determine what they are from the metadata on this spreadsheet or in Argo. I need to see the scan, which I cannot do even with your helpful directions below.

A few of these scans overlap with red Welte scans that we did later, and so they should be earlier versions that will not be used. You will see that quite a number of these are recuts. I decided not to scan recuts when we began scanning in earnest because I think that they are of limited research value. However, since we actually have these scans, we could possibly use them provided that the scans are of sufficient quality. That is a rather big IF though. Craig could check to see if the quality of these is acceptable or not.

It is now clear to me that these rolls are surely from the acceptance test when we were testing the scanner just after it was completed by the engineering company. For that test, we primarily used second copies and recuts.

Jerry McBride

Head Librarian Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound Braun Music Center, Room 104 Stanford University 541 Lasuen Mall Stanford, CA 94305-3076 650-725-1146 650-384-9817 (mobile) 650-725-1145 (fax)

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From: Catherine A. Aster caster@stanford.edu Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:04 AM To: Jerry L McBride jlmcbrid@stanford.edu Subject: Re: STATUS UPDATE REQUESTED: Re: Catching up re piano rolls

Hi Jerry,

This is my bad. Apologies for creating this confusion by providing PURLs. You can only see published content on a PURL page if the content has been accessioned into the SDR. For content that is only registered in Argo, but not yet accessioned, you can only see a page like this, on a per-druid basis:

https://argo.stanford.edu/view/druid:bk934bz8938

So, you can copy and paste the druid part of each PURL on the spreadsheet -- into the URL list above.

I can also re-send the spreadsheet to you with the title and druid instead of the title and PURL, if you'd prefer.

Please let me know.

Best, Cathy

Cathy Aster

She/her/hers Services Manager Spotlight at Stanford Electronic Theses & Dissertations Liaison to DRMC for Map Projects https://library.stanford.edu/people/caster Digital Library Systems & Services Stanford Libraries mobile: 650.619.3930

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From: Jerry L McBride jlmcbrid@stanford.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:55 PM To: Catherine A. Aster caster@stanford.edu Subject: RE: STATUS UPDATE REQUESTED: Re: Catching up re piano rolls

Cathy,

Workin’ on it. About 1/3 done.

I need to see some of the scans. How can I do that. The purls don’t show for me.

https://purl.stanford.edu/hp499sx3004

https://purl.stanford.edu/dk128yj2801

Jerry McBride

Head Librarian Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound Braun Music Center, Room 104 Stanford University 541 Lasuen Mall Stanford, CA 94305-3076 650-725-1146 650-384-9817 (mobile) 650-725-1145 (fax)

[caaster]

See column D for roll type and manufacturer. This info is present for all except for 9 rolls. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ihmN4hMG3SN0cgovp1PQd_Ih5A3rkYqpgxBvTKfHfH0/edit#gid=1422407229