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Software, E-Resource Dataset of the Tap dance in America database Tap dance in America

About this Item

Title

  • Dataset of the Tap dance in America database

Other Title

  • Tap dance in America

Names

  • Hill, Constance Valis, author
  • Library of Congress

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2024.

Headings

  • -  Tap dancing--United States
  • -  Tap dancers--United States--Biography
  • -  Tap dance music--United States--History and criticsim

Genre

  • Data sets
  • Biographies

Notes

  • -  The dataset is presented in multiple structured formats. A CSV file contains all data pulled from each of the database's XML files. The CSV columns were created to maintain the relationships and hierarchies of repeated and nested elements within the XML. Repeated elements are differentiated with a number in square brackets in the column header, and modifying attributes "type" are added in parenthesis. The first column "000_filename" contains the original names of the XML files, and serves as a primary key connecting the CSV to the XML files. Due to flattening the hierarchical XML structure to a CSV, some data, including additional element attributes, may not be represented in the CSV. The XML files contain the complete and original data and is packaged in a ZIP file consisting of 2,679 XML files that were the underlying data for the web presentation database. These files contain the MODS (https://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/) bibliographic record wrapped in METS (https://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/). Some URLs in the data may direct to legacy presentations that have been deprecated. Finally, a ZIP file contains 181 HTML biographies that were made available through the site and a CSV file with the filenames and the biographical subjects.
  • -  Description from the original database: Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. This database is a resource of tap dance performances with biographies of seminal twentieth-century tap dancers. The database documents, factually and with minimal editorial flourish, twentieth-century tap performance. The collection is searchable by the title, date, and venue of performance; dancer, choreographer, director, producer; and performance medium (film, television, radio, stage, club); as well as by the names of "tap numbers" and tap choreographies. Though the database is not complete in any way, it is the most exhaustive and detailed collection of materials on record.
  • -  Title from README file, viewed July 26, 2024

Medium

  • 1 online resource (datasets)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GV1794

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024562029

Rights Advisory

  • "Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media" was created by and is owned by Constance Valis Hill. Ms. Hill donated a copy of the database to the Library of Congress, and has authorized its use on the Library's website.
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Online Format

  • compressed data

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Chicago citation style:

Hill, Constance Valis, Author, and Library Of Congress. Dataset of the Tap dance in America database. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2024. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024562029/.

APA citation style:

Hill, C. V. & Library Of Congress. (2024) Dataset of the Tap dance in America database. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024562029/.

MLA citation style:

Hill, Constance Valis, Author, and Library Of Congress. Dataset of the Tap dance in America database. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2024. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024562029/>.