The American Discography Project: Edison Disc Recording Access Initiative
FAIN: PW-259040-18
University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
David Seubert (Project Director: July 2017 to March 2021)
The completion of discographic entries for the
complete output of Edison Diamond Discs, Thomas Edison’s recording company, in
the Discography of American Historical Recordings. The project would make information
publicly searchable for about 14,000 discs recorded and released from 1912 to
1929 and also would digitize 9,000 selections for public streaming access
through the National Jukebox.
The American Discography Project-Edison Disc Recording Access Initiative is a project to add discographic data on all 14,000 Edison disc recordings to UC Santa Barbara's Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) as well as digitize 9,000 issued sides from major repositories holding Edison discs. The project will be the first to digitize the complete corpus of an American record company for online access.
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Discography of American Historical Recordings (Web Resource)Title: Discography of American Historical Recordings
Author: University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract: The Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) is a database of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era. It is part of the American Discography Project (ADP)—an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara that is edited by a team of researchers based at the UCSB Library.
DAHR is an expansion of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR) incorporating previously published discographic data licensed from various publishers, folding them into the search and display framework of DAHR. Documentation of the activities of the Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA Victor derives primarily from consultation of publications of the companies and original documents held in the archives of Sony Music Entertainment in New York City. DAHR entries describing recordings made by Columbia Records, the Berliner Gramophone Co., OKeh Records, Zonophone Records, Leeds & Catlin Records, and Decca are based on authoritative published discographies, supplemented with new research, examination of recordings in the collections of the University of California Santa Barbara Library, and submissions from record collectors and archives.
Year: 2007
Primary URL:
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/