Add works, old - automatic
Posted: 21 May 2017 12:41
Max (choralia) asked why I'm still working with the "old" add score process.
First:
Matter of habit; I originally followed the help information for 'How can I contribute?', German: 'Anleitung zur Einsendung von Partituren', which still lead directly to the form "Add works".
Perhaps one should update the help pages?
Secondly:
Since the CPDL is so large and extensive, I deal very often with already existing pages. Using manual copy-and-pastes and basic wiki code, I can make all the changes in one step and don't have to worry about 'checking and refining'.
Third:
The 'checking and refining' would be particularly relevant for 'large works'.
Currently I find 3 different treatments for those:
A) There are only pages for 'individual movements'. The togetherness may or may not be apparent from the title or manually maintained composer pages.
B) In addition to the 'individual movements', there is a page for the complete work, where there should be reciprocal links. I know but no built-in Wiki mechanism for such links.
C) Both complete editions as well as editions of 'individual movements' are on one page (see, for example, Schubert, Deutsche Messe). If the automatic process puts a new edition simply at the beginning, it is afterwards no longer possible to see where the entry actually belongs (without looking into the pdf file).
Since I am not a librarian, I can not evaluate the different approaches. But there may be no single optimum. On the one hand there are works that really form a unity (mass, oratorio, ...). On the other hand, there are many rather loose collections of the kind: 'n Songs / Motets op. nnn'.
But the handling with an automatic processes would be easier if this had a built-in insight of 'larger works'.
First:
Matter of habit; I originally followed the help information for 'How can I contribute?', German: 'Anleitung zur Einsendung von Partituren', which still lead directly to the form "Add works".
Perhaps one should update the help pages?
Secondly:
Since the CPDL is so large and extensive, I deal very often with already existing pages. Using manual copy-and-pastes and basic wiki code, I can make all the changes in one step and don't have to worry about 'checking and refining'.
Third:
The 'checking and refining' would be particularly relevant for 'large works'.
Currently I find 3 different treatments for those:
A) There are only pages for 'individual movements'. The togetherness may or may not be apparent from the title or manually maintained composer pages.
B) In addition to the 'individual movements', there is a page for the complete work, where there should be reciprocal links. I know but no built-in Wiki mechanism for such links.
C) Both complete editions as well as editions of 'individual movements' are on one page (see, for example, Schubert, Deutsche Messe). If the automatic process puts a new edition simply at the beginning, it is afterwards no longer possible to see where the entry actually belongs (without looking into the pdf file).
Since I am not a librarian, I can not evaluate the different approaches. But there may be no single optimum. On the one hand there are works that really form a unity (mass, oratorio, ...). On the other hand, there are many rather loose collections of the kind: 'n Songs / Motets op. nnn'.
But the handling with an automatic processes would be easier if this had a built-in insight of 'larger works'.