Metadusie

Handout Here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzBPaD2iqg7xUWZuaDNkUElrYnM

Also! A screencast (not by me, as I was not required to, and we all know how smooth I am when presenting), but by a fabulous past student! She does a great job of touring the ID3 elements in iTunes and WMA, and also introduces another audio library option. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGpn5-knRY

If you are tidying up your music library and have a large number of items, I recommend you check out the many apps available to make it a fast and easy process!

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=id3%20tag&c=apps

Thanks to guidance from the fabulous DAM Debey’s blog post on her process, I finally dove in and started my indexing, but realized I quickly forgot the rules as soon as I had entered something. And I was so cocky that I had not even read the guidelines for selecting the coverage.temporal guidelines, because surely! That’s obvious...it’s the year the game is played, right?! Oh wait, on my final read when I got insecure, sure enough - the following January is considered part of the previous year (which makes more sense, as I work in education and we think of everything as July 1-June 30 instead of calendar year).

I had to go back and change my titles after re-reading the indexing guideline on that element - I realized that I was basically including a lot lot lot of of of duplication duplication duplication (see what I did there?) of info that was already covered in other elements.

But it is hard not to include some of that; what if clients only peruse the titles instead of searching deeply for the other element info? Hrm. Should I put the dates back in? If I had not waited until the last minute, I could have gotten advice from my class colleagues, but that is not the way I roll (I’m a masochist).

I did take heed after my third review of the title guideline to spell-out things and  change “vs.” to “versus.” Rule-follower in some respects!

But hey, here is me in both cooking and indexing...

I feel I received the easiest of elements for our client project, but of course I obsess about the correct way to state it anyway! Would love feedback from my fab group. :) See my draft in the wiki, and questions below...

1) Am I including too much detail?

2) Is the roster/actual list of preferred names/initials appropriate for the creation guidelines, or would the notes field be more appropriate?

3) Our class does not have any duplicate first/last initial combinations. In the event that we did, I had planned to make the indexer initials element include a number. Example: John Smith would be JS1, the next John Smith would be JS2, etc. Is that a good tactic? What would you advise for a best practice?