Boston Public Library Vynil collection

title

Boston Public Library Vynil collection

homepage

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

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

Boston Public Library

type

Repository

purpose

Learning

audience

amateurs

listeners

example resource

https://archive.org/details/lp_a-charlie-brown-christmas_charles-m-schulz

type of collected resources

Recording

Track

music genre in scope

jazz

rock music

pop music

opera

category of data collected

Metadata

Media

collection size

<100000

data formats

audio

data license

Open Access

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1641116189-3026085