Workshop note · Creator economy
Three holdings, no containment
The editorial holding, the national library’s catalogue and the artist’s own platform account keep three different catalogues of the work. None contains the others — and the recording identifiers let you measure that exactly.
- Revised
- 2026-08-05
- Topic field
- Creator economy
- Figures in the text
- read from the database at request time
Anyone publishing independently ends up keeping their catalogue of work in several places at once: where they curate what they think matters, where they deposited it, and where the files actually live. You quietly assume the three agree. Here they do not.
- held editorially
- 22 releases
- in the DNB catalogue
- 367 records
- on the artist’s SoundCloud account
- 479 tracks
Three numbers that diverge say little on their own — they could simply be counting the same thing differently. The question only becomes checkable through an identifier that means the same recording in both holdings: the ISRC. 477 of the platform tracks carry one, and so do all 367 catalogue records. That makes the intersection countable rather than estimable.
- in both holdings
- 358 recordings
- only on the platform
- 113 recordings
- only in the catalogue
- 9 recordings
The smaller number is the interesting one. 9 recordings are catalogued bibliographically but cannot be found on the platform account — among them CHATTERBOX, FLEXILITY and BEGINNING PART ONE. For those titles the catalogue entry is currently the only public evidence that they exist at all. This is precisely the case libraries were built for.
The editorial holding of 22 titles is the third set and the smallest. It is curated, not complete, and is not meant to be. How it stands against the catalogue is shown on the music page.