Kristine Brancolini
Director, Digital Library Program
Indiana University
Stephen Davison
Music Librarian, Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Curtis Fornadley
Digital Library Lead Programmer
University of California, Los Angeles
Cynthia Requardt
Kurrelmeyer Curator of Special Collections
Johns Hopkins University
Stpehen H. Schwartz
Head, Library Information Systems/Development
University of California, Los Angeles
To move beyond basic OAI services requires community agreement on potential user needs, data standards, special software capabilities, and data conversion and mapping strategies to support a useful Service Provider. This project tests collaboration in designing a specialized OAI Service for Sheet Music. It will also test the value of such a service as a research tool for music and other communities.
Sheet music is a rich resource for scholars in a number of disciplines, but unlocking its potential has proved a daunting task for the custodians of these collections. Resources have been expended to provide access to sheet music on a local level, and it is the interoperability with this existing metadata, as well as new data with digital images linked, that this project addresses. Other questions addressed include:
- Is unqualified Dublin Core too simplistic?
- Can usability testing and focus groups identify areas in which the data model can be standardized and enriched?
- Can we effectively incorporate qualified DC and/or authority control over data gathered from multiple sources?
This session will demonstrate and discuss the process and preliminary results of Phase One of the project and outline the next phase.
Web Links:
Sheet Music Consortium: Gateway to Sheet Music CollectionsHandout:
Specialized OAI Service Providers: Sheet Music Harvester–A Work in Progress
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