The room
Golden Era DnB started as a community and the archive is downstream of it. The knowledge is already there; it just has nowhere permanent to live.
The loop
Discussion
Someone asks what break is on a record, or which night a set came from.
Curation
The thread produces a credible answer with people who can corroborate it.
Verification
A moderator checks it and records what the evidence actually was.
Archive
The answer becomes a field on the track, with the thread attached as provenance.
A forum buries what it knows. The intention here is the opposite: a discussion about a record points at the actual record, and anything that survives verification becomes part of it. Contributions never overwrite a canonical record on their own.
Planned areas
I was there
- Memories, tickets, flyers, photographs and set details on any event.
- Corrections and missing dates on any record.
- Submitted, under review, verified, needs source: every contribution has a state.
- Moderated before anything enters the archive.
Track ID
- A clip, a timestamp, a mix link, a rough year, a night.
- The accepted answer connects to the real track and release record.
- Audio matching can assist later. The room stays the authority.