Mudcat Links section edited

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Will Fly
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 10:53 AM

Don't worry Rap - the AACR are still being followed ... and DDC 19 ...

(Sorry, folks - just ol' librarians' stuff)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 08:58 AM

The link to the Library of Congress classification scheme is gone! So are the LC subject headings! Oh woe is me! How can I classify my wax cylinders and wire recordings, assuming I had any, which I don't? Worst of all, Will Fly removed the guide to MARC and now I shall never know the difference between a 650 and 651 field!

Oh, woe is me!

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 08:09 PM

Registered Mudcatters are welcome to submit links to the Links Section. Please use the submission process if at all possible, and don't ask up to submit links on our behalf. The process is pretty self-explanatory. We encourage performers to link to their Websites, but note that Mudcatters tend to frown on egotistical, self-aggrandizing self-promotion.

Oh, Lord, it's hard to be humble...so we do edit the worst of the link submissions, and reject non-music links. And we allow links to appear only once on our links page.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 07:36 PM

Australian links - lots of them

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 03:26 PM

If you can fathom your way through this you're very welcome to any of the links there
https://ukfolklinks.wordpress.com

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 03:23 PM

! yikes, that's a job and a half !

Just for Festivals & Venues ... here are a few ideas.
I do have tons more but these are more worthwhile :

links/LinksByCat.cfm?CategoryID=20&LinkCategoryGroupID=6 
About the best UK festival listing site I've seen :
  UK Folk Festivals
Scotland\England\Ireland\Wales\This Month\The Big List in date order
“We aim to list almost all the festivals in the UK. 
We have arranged the festivals by country and by date, as well as our famous Big List which covers all those festivals that we know about. 
Festivals starting within the next five weeks can be found on our This Month page."
www.ukfolkfestivals.co.uk/ 

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links/LinksByCat.cfm?CategoryID=115&LinkCategoryGroupID=6 
‘Ents24 Backstage’ 
Add your own club’s events to this UK gig guide(if the artist hasn’t done so already). 
https://backstage.ents24.com/ 

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links/LinksByCat.cfm?CategoryID=73&LinkCategoryGroupID=6 
Folk London
Folk London is a bi monthly listings magazine -but they have an online diary(& listings) page : 
http://www.folklondon.co.uk/diary.php 

& some more for London on
thread.cfm?threadid=162661

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Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 01:33 PM

Hi Nick - there are some great sites in the Links section, and just going through them one at a time gave me a real insight into stuff I didn't know existed! Certainly improved my musical awareness.

I now know how to make kazoos from the most unlikely materials! :-)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 12:53 PM

I just visited one randomly, and alas, it is Katlaughing as a storyteller. Deceased. https://mudcat.org/links/LinksByCat.cfm The page is still up but I wonder if anyone is aware of it (probably set up on a free hosting site.)

Subject: RE: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Nick
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 12:39 PM

Now there's a thing.

I realise in the 15+ years I have been coming to mudcat I have never looked at the Links section

Subject: Mudcat Links section edited
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 12:34 PM

Courtesy of Joe Offer and Max, I've been given the opportunity to go through the whole Mudcat Links section with a view to checking all the links and editing them where necessary. Where a link is out-of-date, the process I've used is as follows:

1. Where the website exists under a more modern URL, I've simply updated the URL.

2. Where the website is defunct, I've traced the last useable record of the site in the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" and added the Wayback URL. The original URL has not been edited out.

3. Where the website has gone, with no evidence of any traceable pages from the past, I've deleted the link. There are only a handful of these.

I shall be keeping a regular eye on the Links section to make sure it's kept up-to-date. I hope to add some useful ones where I've come across them in my "links" trawling through the web - and suggestions from 'Catters for alterations and additions are more than welcome.

Will