This page documents LD4P3 work at Cornell University Library to consider how we might bring enhancements to https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/ using Discogs data into productionis deprecated. For more information about our use of Discogs in our production Blacklight catalog, please see:Production: Discogs.

Background

Catalogers often use Discogs as a source of information for creating MARC descriptions; it is generally considered a rich and trustworthy source of information. In LD4P2, Cornell built a prototype that automatically added Discogs information into our Blacklight item view pages for music recordings by using Questioning Authority to query and match descriptions in the catalog with descriptions in Discogs. In this prototype

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