Digitisation / Cataloguing of non-textual objects: The Indexing and Digitization of Paper Rolls for Player Pianos from the Collection at the Deutsches Museum

Deutsches博物馆收藏了大约3000个穿孔纸卷，这些纸卷是1905-1935年间的自动钢琴。该系列包括钢琴卷和来自一系列制造商的钢琴复制品，包括作曲家克劳德·达姆布西、爱德华·格里格和马克斯·雷格的原始录音，以及著名钢琴家卡尔·莱因内克、阿图尔·施纳贝尔、威廉·巴克豪斯和弗拉基米尔·霍洛维茨的原始录音，因此代表了20世纪初音乐历史学家的杰出资源。该项目旨在为这一重要的收藏开发一个原型索引。它被认为是一个试点项目，在此过程中，我们将为收集卷筒纸制定标准化的描述和适当的展示形式。我们的目标是在互联网上进行严格的研究，创新的多媒体演示，这将是第一次结合描述性数据，照片，音频文件和技术解释。此外，纸卷将被编目和数字化，穿孔读卡器也将被描述。这些数据将在德意志博物馆的网站上作为开放获取的内容，并集成到音乐学虚拟图书馆（ViFa Musik）中。它还将被包括在其他的，超区域的门户网站，如“Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen”（图书馆，档案馆，博物馆，BAM）和Europeana。该系统易于扩展；预计的清单将成为一个区域间文件工具的基础，该工具可以对一系列不同机构所拥有的这类资源的全部范围进行索引。

The Deutsches Museum holds a collection of approximately three thousand perforated paper rolls for player pianos dating from the period 1905-1935. The collection includes rolls for pianolas and reproducing pianos from a range of manufacturers, and includes original recordings by the composers Claude Débussy, Edvard Grieg, and Max Reger, and by renowned pianists Carl Reinecke, Artur Schnabel, Wilhelm Backhaus, and Vladimir Horovitz, thus representing an outstanding resource for historians of music in the early twentieth century.This project aims to develop a prototype index of this significant collection. It is conceived as a pilot project, in the course of which we will develop a standardised description and adequate presentation form for the collection of paper rolls. Our aim is to have a rigorously researched, innovative multimedia presentation on the internet, which will for the first time combine descriptive data, photographs, audio files and technical explanations. Moreover, the paper rolls will be catalogued and digitized, and the perforated readers will likewise be described. The data will be made available on the Deutsches Musuem website as open-access content, and integrated in the Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFa Musik). It will also be included in additional, supra-regional portals such as “Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen” (Libraries, Archives, Museums, BAM) and Europeana.The system will be easily expandable; the projected inventory will form the basis of an interregional documentation tool that can index the full scope of resources of this kind held at a range of different institutions.