Sound recording cataloging
Sound recording cataloging
Excerpted from Preparing for the brave new
world of sound recordings cataloging
by Mary Huismann, University of Minnesota
used with permission
information drawn from Wikipedia and other sources
See the
complete
power point presentation from the 2006
OLAC
Conference
| Year | Physical format | Content format |
| 1870s | Phonograph cylinder | Analog; "hill-and-dale" grooves, vertical stylus |
| 1895 | Gramophone record | Analog; lateral grooves, horizontal stylus |
| ca. 1898 | 78rpm or 78s | disc first produced around 1898; popular from 1910-1950s; by 1910 actual speed ranged from about 78 to 80 rpm; size was 10 or 12 inches |
| 1930s | Wire recording | Analog |
| 1940s 1 | Reel-to-reel tape Magnetic tape |
Analog |
| 1948 | Vinyl record | Analog;
lateral grooves, horizontal stylus also known as LP or long-playing records |
| 1957 | Stereophonic vinyl record | Analog; lateral/vertical stylus (each channel encoded 45 degrees to vertical) |
| 1963 2 | Audio cassette | Analog;
1/8 in. tape width; 1 7/8 ips popular in the US through the 1990s |
| 1964 | 8-track tape | Analog; 1/4 in. tape width; 3 3/4 ips in an endless loop cartridge |
| 1969 | Microcassette | Analog |
| 1970 | Dolby noise reduction introduced (cassettes) | |
| 1975 | Betamax digital audio | "Dolby Stereo" cinema surround sound |
| 1982 | Compact disc | Digital;
usually 4 3/4 in. diameter first available in Japan in October 1982, in Europe in February 1983, and in the US in March 1983 |
| 1985 | CD-ROM | |
| 1987 | Digital audio tape (DAT) | cassette version of the CD; used in the recording industry until 2000; DAT players ceased production in 2005 |
| 1990s | Digital compact cassette | |
| 1991 | MiniDisc | |
| 1992 | WAVEform (WAV) Dolby digital surround cinema sound |
|
| 1993 | Dolby theatre system (DTS) Sony dynamic digital sound (SDDS) |
|
| 1995 | MP3 | |
| 1996 | DVD | |
| 1999 3 | Streaming audio | |
| 1999 | Super audio CD (SACD) | Windows media audio (WMA) (higher sampling rate, spatial sound capability) |
| 2000 | DVD-Audio | |
| 2004 | DualDisc | CD on one side, DVD on the other |
| 2005 | Playaway | |
| Cataloging guidelines: | Playaway
Guide
to cataloging playaway devices (MLA/OLAC Playaway Cataloging Joint
Task Force) WAV, WMA, MP3: Best practices for cataloging streaming media (OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee) |
|
OCLC gives different dates; see
www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/2xx/260.shtm
under REC guidelines for $c
1 OCLC gives this date as 1954
2 OCLC gives this date as 1965
3 This date is from OCLC
Comments to
Mickey Koth Yale University Music
Library