Kent State Music Instrumentation Search IUG May 2014 Tom Klingler Kent State University
A webpac enhancement that provides searching of: a. MARC 047 Form of Musical Composition Code (NR) and b. MARC 048 Number of Musical Instruments or Voices Code (R) Which allows the user to identify musical scores for a. Particular types of music, e.g., chamber, and b. Particular combinations of instruments, e.g., music for 1 horn, 1 oboe, and 1 piano Music….what ?!
The search a. attempts to make up for the absence of a native webpac interface to provide this specialized searching b. provides an imitation webpac search screen c. runs on a separate web server d. exploits the webpac’s keyword indexing of the 047/048 e. steps the user through the creation of a webpac search f. submits that search to the webpac in the background Music….what ?!
Dear music librarian, Please help me find a score that’s for 1 clarinet and 1 saxophone. Thank you, Music student
Dear systems guy, Hey! It looks like maybe the 047 and 048 stuff is indexed in the webpac. Can you make a search interface for it? Thank you, Music librarian Beth Flood, now Beth Iseminger, music and media cataloger at Harvard
Dear music librarian, Huh? Can you show me what you’re talking about? Thank you, Systems Guy
Dear Systems Guy, Dang! These music librarians are I must have missed a “search.html” webpac page all these years! And I don’t remember any WWWOPTIONS for this at all! What a dope I am! How do I explain this?! I better start planning for retirement…. Go for coffee…. Systems Guy
Dear Systems Guy, OK. Whew… No such “search.html” webpac page …. No WWWOPTIONS …. I’m not as dumb as I look… OK….get with Rick and see if we can make up a fake webpac page that will do this search. Great idea! Go for more coffee! Systems Guy then developer at Kent, now
Dear Systems Guy, …..and….. That 048 stuff really IS indexed in our keyword index!!
Keyword indexing rules… Hmmmm….
Dear Systems Guy, …..and….. AND, it’s looking like we should concentrate on 048 and skip the 047 idea…..
At this point, the Music Instrumentation Search application submits this search to our webpac in the background:
1%22~20&l=&m=c&s=&c=&b=&SORT=D&Da=&Db= ba01 = 1 horn (brass) ka01 = 1 piano (keyboard) wb01 = 1 oboe (woodwinds) ba01 %20 ka01 %20 wb01
Enough coffee…
Can I have this ? Here’s that code sample that you can imitate.
Can I have this ? Or, pay me $250,000 and I’ll get it built at your site. ;-) Or, let’s ask III to whip up a “search.html” page and a few WWWOPTIONS to support this search functionality natively within the Webpac.
Kent State Music Instrumentation Search IUG May 2014 Tom Klingler Kent State University