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Riley Digitization Center

Riley Digitization Center. Summer 2005 Report. Riley Center Projects 2004 - 2005. Digitized Music from the Spencer Collection Digitized the Aurelia Brooks Harlan Collection Digitized records and encoded music for Audio Reserves and Audio Reserves 2Go Added full text to Spencer Metadata

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  1. Riley Digitization Center Summer 2005 Report

  2. Riley Center Projects2004 - 2005 • Digitized Music from the Spencer Collection • Digitized the Aurelia Brooks Harlan Collection • Digitized records and encoded music forAudio Reserves and Audio Reserves 2Go • Added full text to Spencer Metadata • Began digitizing the Ouseley Collection

  3. CONTENTdm Many of the items digitized in the Riley Center are stored on a CONTENTdm server The following slides are screenshots of the CONTENTdm Web interface Please visit the Website: http://baylordigitallibrary.cdm.oclc.org

  4. CONTENTdm Baylor Digital Library

  5. Spencer Collection One of the few fully-cataloged popular sheet music collections in the country, the Spencer Collection contains approximately 28,000 pieces of American popular sheet music. Publication dates of the items span the period from the last decades of the 18th century to the late 1950’s. Sheet music from this era provides insight into the music of the times, social life and customs, perspectives of ethnic groups, as well as access to beautiful cover art.

  6. Browsing the Spencer Collection in CONTENTdm This is the thumbnail view which displays small images of the covers Clicking a cover opens the item viewer

  7. Navigate through the music in the item viewer; zoom in and out of pages.

  8. Spencer Collection Full Text This summer the lyrics were transcribed from the online images into text files. These text files will be merged with the images to provide full text for each piece of music. By the fall, all 1,000 pieces of online music will also have a full-text field that will display the lyrics from the document description page. • Using the Riley Center equipment, the • library staff viewed digital images of music and transcribed the lyrics, totaling: • 28,979 lines of text • 184,596 words • 942,546 characters

  9. and a link to the document description displays the object’s metadata, including the full text. Page 2 of Antonio

  10. The doc description page displays the data that describes the object… …and now… …full-text lyrics

  11. side-by-side view of the lyrics and the page of music

  12. A final phase of the Spencer Sheet Music Project includes attaching MIDI files to the object allowing the client to listen to the music. This phase uses software to analyze the images of the music to create the MIDI files. The scanned images must be high resolution (300dpi or more) in order for the software to interpret the music with a useful degree of accuracy. The scanners and high-storage capacity the Riley Center provides will make this phase possible.

  13. Aurelia Brooks Harlan Collection A collection of Elizabeth Barrett Browning letters and related materials was gathered by Dr. Aurelia Brooks Harlan (1899 - 1991) and her husband, Dr. J. Lee Harlan, during their research stays in England. Dr. Harlan, the daughter of Samuel Palmer Brooks (president of Baylor University from 1902-1931) received her undergraduate degree at Baylor University. She is the compiler of Browningiana in Baylor University (1921), co-editor of Letters from Owen Meredith (Robert, First Earl of Lytton) to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1936), and author of Owen Meredith, A Critical Biography of Robert, First Early of Lytton (1946). The collection consists of: • 13 letters written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Uvedale Price, Hugh Stuart Boyd, James Commeline, Jr., John Kenyon and Edmund Henry Barker; • 68 letters written to EBB by Edmund Henry Barker, Richard Hengist Horne, John Kenyon and her aunt Arabella Graham-Clarke; • 3 letters from Edmund Henry Barker to Hugh Stuart Boyd; 2 documents in the hand of EBB, 2 in the hand of her sister, Arabella, and 1 in the hand of John Forster.

  14. Browsing the Aurelia Brooks Harlan Collection in Thumbnail View Clicking on the first page opens the item viewer

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  16. Page 2 of 2 At a later date, these letters will also be transcribed to allow searching and provide an easier way to read the content, like the following example…

  17. This page provides an image of the original letter and the transcribed text (a sample from Lady Layard’s Journal).

  18. Audio Digitization and Encoding LPs are digitized in the Riley Center, and encoded for streaming Web delivery. CDs are encoded for streaming Web delivery. • Using the Riley Center equipment, the Fine Arts Staff has encoded: • 1,704 hours of music, or • 23,186 pieces of music, or • 117.24 gigabytes of data The encoded music is available to students preparing for listening exams

  19. Students access Web pages containing links to the online music.

  20. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley Collection Purchased in June of 1991, the Ouseley Collection contains 297 books and scores from the library of Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825-1889) and includes hymnals, anthems, cathedral books, organ music, part songs, madrigals, oratorios, and operas as well as books on music history, singing, organ construction, bell ringing, acoustics, and music theory. Rev. Ouseley was an English church musician, scholar, and composer who established St. Michael's College, Tenbury in 1854. He was an outspoken proponent of fine church music. As a result of his efforts as a church musician, the parish church at St. Michael's became well known for its excellent service music. Ouseley was also a noted collector of music and books on music. The bulk of the collection dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  21. Continue digitizing the Spencer Collection Continue digitizing records and encoding music for Audio Reserves and Audio Reserves 2Go Finish digitizing the Ouseley Collection and load into CONTENTdm Begin work on: The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project Riley Digitization Center2005 - 2006 Black Gospel Music Restoration Project We are currently investigating the possibility of using the Riley Center to be the hub of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. The project involves cataloging, annotating and digitizing sound recordings (wire, acetate, wax, and tape – 78s, 45s, 33s and the occasional cassette) and ephemera, from the ‘Golden Age’ of Gospel Music. The recordings are quickly deteriorating, but by digitizing them we can preserve a digital copy.

  22. Links to Live Content [Baylor Digital Library] [Spencer Sheet Music] [Harlan Collection letters]

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