Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection

title

Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection

homepage

https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary?tab=collection

description

The Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats, including wax cylinders, 78 rpms, and LPs. The recordings span many genres, including classical, pop, rock, jazz, and opera – from 78s produced in the early 1900s to LPs from the 1980s. These recordings have never been circulated and were in storage for several decades, uncataloged and inaccessible to the public. By collaborating with the Internet Archive, Boston Public Libraries audio collection can be heard by new audiences of scholars, researchers and music lovers worldwide.

creator or project

Internet Archive

type

Digital Library

purpose

Learning

audience

performers

researchers

scholars

amateurs

listeners

task or research field

history

example resource

https://archive.org/details/lp_beethoven-complete-piano-music_alfred-brendel-zubin-mehta-heinz-wallberg

type of collected resources

Performance

Record

Track

audio

Audio

scope of the collection

Genre

music genre in scope

pop music

opera

jazz

classical music

folk music

category of data collected

Media

Metadata

collection size

<1M

data formats

html

audio

Audio

data license

CC-BY

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1639162951-0181825