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ARChive of Contemporary Music

54 White Street, New York NY 10013 USA
www.arcmusic.org

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The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City. The ARChive collects, preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from 1950 to the present. Since the ARChive's founding in 1986 our holdings have grown to over 1.5 million sound recordings, making the ARChive the largest popular music collection in the United States. And we are growing daily as over 500 record companies, publishers, and distributors from around the world donate new materials to the ARChive. In addition to sound recordings and publications, the ARChive actively collects all books, magazines, videos, films, photographs, press kits, newspapers clippings, memorabilia and ephemera relating to the history of popular music--over 2 million items. We also maintain an electronic database of 35,000 people working in the music industry and 200,000 sound recordings catalogued at the ARChive.

Projects

General Cataloging

Intern: David Jackson

Code: ARCMusic-01

Interns
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Creating metadata on each new recording entering the ARChive / Cataloging the collection.

Qualification: Listening to sound recordings entering information and descriptions on a MAC.

International Discography

Intern: Noah Liebman

Code: ARCMusic-02

Interns
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Create online access to our metadata on the recordings in our collection. Approx 450K recordings. Currently in Filemaker. Goal is for staff to be able to easily upload data from filemaker to the SQL database that will be created. DB needs to be fast and smart!

Qualification: Serious database building skills.

Unmatched Projects

Convert FM database

Code: ARCMusic-03

Interns
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Convert a few of our flat Filemaker dbs to table based relational databases. Teach us how to do ourselves.

Qualification: Expert understanding of Filemaker database.

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