The public end of this blog - how to go on?
First of all: thank you for your nice e-mails! There are by now about 40 people who will get an invitation to the private blog by the end of May. I am really looking forward to carry on my blog, but I am also searching for new forms of Publishing. First of all: my vision of an Internet Archive, where every recording can be downloaded from, is already reality. I became a member of Archive.org, where everything you can possibly imagine will and should be archivated. During the next months I will upload my already digitized shellack 78rpm collection there (more than 1000 sides!) - for everyone to see and download.
The Problem is: You can find very very very many things on Archive.org - so many, that you can loose the overview. So I will have to learn to describe my recordings well, use many tags to mark them and make them findable. I will report here how I come ahead.
I still want to write about the recordings and carry on my as-project. By now, I will save most of the articles of my blogs as PDF-files and look for a place to publish them anonymously. Maybe also in Archive.org, but I don't know yet: in the German "common text" Department there are mainly very many nazistic books published, everything from "Mein Kampf" to evil antisemitic books from the thirties and forties. I do not want that my articles appear is this milieu, but there shall be other possibilities which I do not know yet. I also became member in the Google group Symphonyshare and hope I can reach there other people interested in historical recordings, too, and make some propaganda for my recordings and articles. Maybe...
On Archive.org, there are already more than 88.000 78rpm- and cylinder-recordings - most of them jazz, popular and low brow classics. So I will increase the level with quality opera recordings and make it more worth while for "serious" collectors. I did experiment very much the last days to find out how I can upload recordings, how I name and tag them and so on. I think, the offered services on Archive.org are quite useable, and I hope, that other collectors soon will discover this possibility, too and follow me there to build up a giant Internet Collection of opera and classical shellack recordings..
The only pity is: over this blog which can be found by Google I have got contact with some grandsons or grandnephews of singers, who shared valuable photos and informations with me. Last year I bought a few records and photos from the estate of Tenor Josef Schöffel (who also made some recordings in the as-series). The granddaughter of him , who offered these things to me, found me over my blog. The same was with Hermann Weil and Charlotte Viereck. When this blog goes private, no longer persons who are not interested in music but in a special singer they knew, can find me and share their Knowledge with me. But maybe there will always be another way to catch up with this loss.
For the future, I plan in this blog to carry on with my as-project and portray some singers, who recorded in the as series and some in other late acoustical series as well, like Irene Eden, Jenny Sonnenberg, Hedwig Jungkurth and Milly Stephan. So I hope I bring you a few interesting themes in the future.
The readers who already wrote me will get an Invitation to my blog as soon as it gets private. Others who want to read on must send me a mail (as soon as possible) to recordplayer78@gmail.com to stay in the blog.
Just have a look into the future of record collecting:
https://archive.org/details/@emilio_de_gogorza
You can bookmark this link: there will be more and more recordings to find there in the next time. But it is a time wasting buisiness, and I do it "by the way" while I am sitting at my writng desk.
My Opera on Paper-blog will close, but some of the articles will be saved and published elsewhere. And the photos will be uploaded to FLICKR, together with many not earlier published photos. I am experimenting there too, but it is also a fine sight already.
You can also bookmark this link, if you like. There is more to come to create the virtual museum I always dreamt of:
https://www.flickr.com/people/140061259@N06/
PS. Sorry that Blogger always corrects my English in a way that many words are written with capital letters at the beginning of the word.
Und jetzt noch einmal auf Deutsch:
Dieser Blog wird ab ca. 24.05.18 nur noch privat für eingeladene Leser weitergeführt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Problem hat mich beflügelt, nach weiteren Möglichkeiten zu suchen, wie man über das Internet das aufgenommene Erbe der Generationen von halbvergessenen Opernsängern der Allgemeinheit zugänglich machen kann. Dabei bin ich auf Archive.org gestoßen, wo bereits heute über 80.000 Schellack-Seiten und Zylinderaufnahmen für jedermann zum Download vorgestellt werden. Dies ist aber nur ein kleiner Teil von insgesamt 4,2 Millionen (!) Tondateien, die dort zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Darunter sind auch Radiosendungen, Hörbücher und eigene Aufnahmen von Nutzern. Das zeigt, dass das Hauptproblem sein wird, die interessanten Aufnahmen dort überhaupt zu finden. Genauso wichtig wie das sorgfältige Überspielen ist die Ausstattung der Aufnahmen mit Metadaten, den sogenannten Tags, mit denen die Aufnahmen über Suchfunktionen dann zielsicherer gefunden werden können. Darüber habe ich in den letzten Tagen intensiv nachgedacht und experimentiert, und bin im Großen und Ganzen sehr zufrieden. Ich verweise hier einmal auf "meine" Seite, die man sich ruhig in den Favoriten speichern darf, weil es sich lohnt, ab und zu einmal dort zu schauen, was es Neues gibt. Ich plane, nach und nach alle meine ca. 1400 Schellack-Seiten, die ich in den letzten acht Jahren digitalisiert habe, dort hochzuladen. Die Adresse:
https://archive.org/details/@emilio_de_gogorza
Meine Sammlung von Sängerbildern und andere Inhalte aus dem alten "Oper auf Papier"-Blog werde ich erst einmal auf FLICKR präsentieren. Das ist noch nicht so ganz geordnet und durchdacht, und einige Karten, die nicht gut beschnitten sind, werde ich noch einmal scannen, aber auch dort sieht es schon ganz nett aus und es wird ständig etwas dazukommen!
https://www.flickr.com/people/140061259@N06/
Zuletzt noch einmal der Hinweis: Wenn ihr diesen Blog weiter lesen wollt, schreibt mir bitte bis spätestens 24.05.18 eine mail an recordplayer78@gmail.com !
Ich hoffe, ihr haltet mir weiter die Treue...
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First of all: thank you for your nice e-mails! There are by now about 40 people who will get an invitation to the private blog by the end of May. I am really looking forward to carry on my blog, but I am also searching for new forms of Publishing. First of all: my vision of an Internet Archive, where every recording can be downloaded from, is already reality. I became a member of Archive.org, where everything you can possibly imagine will and should be archivated. During the next months I will upload my already digitized shellack 78rpm collection there (more than 1000 sides!) - for everyone to see and download.
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| That's the way my collection will look like... |
The Problem is: You can find very very very many things on Archive.org - so many, that you can loose the overview. So I will have to learn to describe my recordings well, use many tags to mark them and make them findable. I will report here how I come ahead.
I still want to write about the recordings and carry on my as-project. By now, I will save most of the articles of my blogs as PDF-files and look for a place to publish them anonymously. Maybe also in Archive.org, but I don't know yet: in the German "common text" Department there are mainly very many nazistic books published, everything from "Mein Kampf" to evil antisemitic books from the thirties and forties. I do not want that my articles appear is this milieu, but there shall be other possibilities which I do not know yet. I also became member in the Google group Symphonyshare and hope I can reach there other people interested in historical recordings, too, and make some propaganda for my recordings and articles. Maybe...
On Archive.org, there are already more than 88.000 78rpm- and cylinder-recordings - most of them jazz, popular and low brow classics. So I will increase the level with quality opera recordings and make it more worth while for "serious" collectors. I did experiment very much the last days to find out how I can upload recordings, how I name and tag them and so on. I think, the offered services on Archive.org are quite useable, and I hope, that other collectors soon will discover this possibility, too and follow me there to build up a giant Internet Collection of opera and classical shellack recordings..
The only pity is: over this blog which can be found by Google I have got contact with some grandsons or grandnephews of singers, who shared valuable photos and informations with me. Last year I bought a few records and photos from the estate of Tenor Josef Schöffel (who also made some recordings in the as-series). The granddaughter of him , who offered these things to me, found me over my blog. The same was with Hermann Weil and Charlotte Viereck. When this blog goes private, no longer persons who are not interested in music but in a special singer they knew, can find me and share their Knowledge with me. But maybe there will always be another way to catch up with this loss.
For the future, I plan in this blog to carry on with my as-project and portray some singers, who recorded in the as series and some in other late acoustical series as well, like Irene Eden, Jenny Sonnenberg, Hedwig Jungkurth and Milly Stephan. So I hope I bring you a few interesting themes in the future.
The readers who already wrote me will get an Invitation to my blog as soon as it gets private. Others who want to read on must send me a mail (as soon as possible) to recordplayer78@gmail.com to stay in the blog.
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| Uploading new recordings to Archive.org |
https://archive.org/details/@emilio_de_gogorza
You can bookmark this link: there will be more and more recordings to find there in the next time. But it is a time wasting buisiness, and I do it "by the way" while I am sitting at my writng desk.
My Opera on Paper-blog will close, but some of the articles will be saved and published elsewhere. And the photos will be uploaded to FLICKR, together with many not earlier published photos. I am experimenting there too, but it is also a fine sight already.
 |
| Discover FLICKR and follow me there! |
You can also bookmark this link, if you like. There is more to come to create the virtual museum I always dreamt of:
https://www.flickr.com/people/140061259@N06/
PS. Sorry that Blogger always corrects my English in a way that many words are written with capital letters at the beginning of the word.
Dieser Blog wird ab ca. 24.05.18 nur noch privat für eingeladene Leser weitergeführt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Problem hat mich beflügelt, nach weiteren Möglichkeiten zu suchen, wie man über das Internet das aufgenommene Erbe der Generationen von halbvergessenen Opernsängern der Allgemeinheit zugänglich machen kann. Dabei bin ich auf Archive.org gestoßen, wo bereits heute über 80.000 Schellack-Seiten und Zylinderaufnahmen für jedermann zum Download vorgestellt werden. Dies ist aber nur ein kleiner Teil von insgesamt 4,2 Millionen (!) Tondateien, die dort zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Darunter sind auch Radiosendungen, Hörbücher und eigene Aufnahmen von Nutzern. Das zeigt, dass das Hauptproblem sein wird, die interessanten Aufnahmen dort überhaupt zu finden. Genauso wichtig wie das sorgfältige Überspielen ist die Ausstattung der Aufnahmen mit Metadaten, den sogenannten Tags, mit denen die Aufnahmen über Suchfunktionen dann zielsicherer gefunden werden können. Darüber habe ich in den letzten Tagen intensiv nachgedacht und experimentiert, und bin im Großen und Ganzen sehr zufrieden. Ich verweise hier einmal auf "meine" Seite, die man sich ruhig in den Favoriten speichern darf, weil es sich lohnt, ab und zu einmal dort zu schauen, was es Neues gibt. Ich plane, nach und nach alle meine ca. 1400 Schellack-Seiten, die ich in den letzten acht Jahren digitalisiert habe, dort hochzuladen. Die Adresse:
https://archive.org/details/@emilio_de_gogorza
Meine Sammlung von Sängerbildern und andere Inhalte aus dem alten "Oper auf Papier"-Blog werde ich erst einmal auf FLICKR präsentieren. Das ist noch nicht so ganz geordnet und durchdacht, und einige Karten, die nicht gut beschnitten sind, werde ich noch einmal scannen, aber auch dort sieht es schon ganz nett aus und es wird ständig etwas dazukommen!
https://www.flickr.com/people/140061259@N06/
Zuletzt noch einmal der Hinweis: Wenn ihr diesen Blog weiter lesen wollt, schreibt mir bitte bis spätestens 24.05.18 eine mail an recordplayer78@gmail.com !
Ich hoffe, ihr haltet mir weiter die Treue...
