Liner Notes Digitization Project Album Jacket Book Artist

Liner Notes Digitization Project Album Jacket & Book • Artist. Name, Album. Name, Date • Song. List (song. Num, Song. Title, Composer, Instrumentalists, time. Stamp…) • Bibliographic. Info (performers, producers, engineers, publishers, studio, dates, copyright, cat. Num, Label. Info) • Essays Album Labels Issues & Challenges Book Insert • Mandatory: Label. Info, Side. Info (Record. Num, Side. Num, Speed) Cat. Num • Bibliographic. Info: Artist. Name, Album. Title, Date, Label. Info (Corp. Name, Address) • Song. List (Song. Name, Song. Numb, Composer, Instrumentalist, Time, Publisher) • Information repeats many times. • Concerned with copying the actual layout and physical characteristics of the artifact, or the content? • Need a more elegant way to link images and text (text is often an image, or relies extensively on design context for meaning) • In this case took the place of the Album Liners (liners were blank) • Critical Essay: Often written by important contemporary critics … and / or • Personal Essay: Written by members of the group. Could also include information regarding the “making of” the album, technical information, theory • Lyrics The LNML Needs YOU • Continued development and augmentation of the LNML DTD • Interface Development: regular users enter liner information. (Complex Library. Thing for Record Collections) • Collection Need: an authoritative and complete record collection with which to work (preferably old, so documents were not born digital) Megan Winget : : Assistant Professor : : School of Information : : UT Austin