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Online sheet music

Explore the uses, selection, and description of digitized sheet music collections. Learn about metadata models, Indiana University's IN Harmony project, user studies, and the Sheet Music Consortium.

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Online sheet music

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  1. Online sheet music Jenn Riley Metadata Librarian Indiana University

  2. Some uses of digitized sheet music • Study • Musical content • Lyrics • Cover art • Ads • Performing • Locating physical collections for further investigation MLA/SAM 2007

  3. Selecting sheet music for digitization • Can’t digitize everything • Can’t select at the item level • Libraries consider • current usage • relationship to other collections • notable collectors • significant parts of larger collections • local user needs MLA/SAM 2007

  4. But how to describe it? • Existing collections generally not described at the item level • Most early online sheet music collections used customized metadata models • Many similarities • Many differences • IU’s IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana project has attempted to build upon these MLA/SAM 2007

  5. IN Harmony metadata needs • Work for diverse project partners • Indiana University Lilly Library • Indiana State Library • Indiana State Museum • Indiana Historical Society • Facilitate interoperability • Effective user access MLA/SAM 2007

  6. IN Harmony user studies • Search logs • Card sort • Task scenario • Email content analysis MLA/SAM 2007

  7. IN Harmony categories • Title elements • Name elements • Publication elements • Subject elements • Identification elements • Note elements • Cover information MLA/SAM 2007

  8. IN Harmony subject elements • Topical subject • Name as subject • Form/genre • Instrumentation • Geographic subject • Language • Local subject MLA/SAM 2007

  9. Sources of online sheet music • Many, many individual sites • Sheet Music Collections, maintained by Lois Schultz • Sheet Music Consortium MLA/SAM 2007

  10. Sheet Music Consortium overview • Production site launched in 2003 • Harvests metadata using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting • Not just for online sheet music • Provides aggregated search, then sends the user back to the hosting institution for access • Long-term goal: to be the place to go for online sheet music, similar to a union catalog MLA/SAM 2007

  11. SMC collections indexed MLA/SAM 2007

  12. Next steps for the SMC • Submitted proposal for a 1-year planning grant to start October 2007 • Will study user needs and data provider needs • Meeting in Bloomington Fall 2007 • Meeting at MLA 2008 • Long-term plan • Continually add more collections • Become easier to use • Run harvesting on a more regular schedule • Add new services MLA/SAM 2007

  13. Possible new SMC services • OAI Static Repository Gateway • Better metadata, including subject access • Harvest content in addition to metadata, starting with thumbnails of covers • Downloadable records (MARC, MODS, DC, etc.) to assist local cataloging • De-duplication of records MLA/SAM 2007

  14. For more information • IN Harmony http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/inharmony • Sheet Music Consortium http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ • These presentation slides http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/mla2007/mla2007.ppt • jenlrile@indiana.edu MLA/SAM 2007

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