Project: Kulturbiblioteket Vinyl Finder

Role: Author

URL: https://pnettto.github.io/kh-vinyls/

What is it?

Browse ~15,000 records as a cover wall or list, with search and genre, year and country filters
A stats page with charts about the collection
Built from the library's 13 PDF lists plus the Stockholm Public Library catalogue
Genres, countries and 3,786 covers added on top, always showing what is confirmed and what is inferred

Browsing the collection as a cover wall

Stats about the collection

Backstory

Kulturbiblioteket lends out around 15,000 vinyl records, but the only way to see what's there is a set of PDF lists split by section. Great collection, hard to explore. So I turned the lists into something you can actually browse. Each of the available 13 catalog PDFs is parsed record by record, and newer albums come from the Stockholm Public Library catalogue.

It's an independent, non-commercial project, not affiliated with Kulturhuset Stadsteatern or Stockholms stadsbibliotek. The code is on GitHub: github.com/pnettto/kh-vinyls.

Technical details

Data

PDF parsing of the library's 13 section lists
Stockholm Public Library catalogue for newer vinyl
MusicBrainz data dump + Cover Art Archive for covers
Rule-based classical tagging, LLM tagging for everything else

Stack

Vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Static data file, no build step
GitHub Pages