Rebuilding the Database of Recorded American Music

FAIN: HC-276715-20

New World Records (Brooklyn, NY 11201-8346)
Jason Loeffler (Project Director: May 2020 to March 2022)

Retention of one position and creation of another role that will allow for continued redevelopment of the DRAM, incorporating content from the freely available journal Sound American. 

Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. requests $145,000 in support for continuing work on the Database of Recorded American Music and Sound American. DRAM’s application code was written in 2010 and, though resilient, is explicitly in want of update. ARM proposes a six-month project to design and develop a new edition of the DRAM web application that integrates Sound American scholarly content. Based on technical discovery performed prior to the emergence of COVID-19, DRAM will be rebuilt on the widely adopted and extensible Drupal content management framework. Sound American, which has already been migrated to that framework, will offer academic subscribers and independent scholars an unparalleled platform for the research, discovery and enjoyment of contemporary & experimental American music. [Edited by staff]