{"id":215,"date":"2011-11-10T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/digitallibrary\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-11-12T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:36:00","slug":"sheet-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/digitallibrary\/sheet-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn-of-the-Century Sheet Music (Music Library)"},"content":{"rendered":"

N.B.: this project became the Longfellow sheet music project<\/a><\/h2>\n

About the Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Working name:<\/strong><\/td>\nSheet Music<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sponsors:<\/strong><\/td>\nSarah Canino, Sabrina Pape<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Duration:<\/strong><\/td>\nTBD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nature:<\/strong>
[Text; image; text+image; GIS; audio\/video; other]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n		Images, text, possibly audio (see “specialized software”)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Project track:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date prepared:<\/strong><\/td>\nNovember 10, 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Project status:<\/strong><\/td>\nProposed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/a>Background \/ Purpose<\/h2>\n

From Sarah Canino’s proposal:<\/p>\n

This collection includes popular sheet music from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s and includes about 2,000 items of about 3-5 pages each.\u00a0 Many have the “decorative” title pages and many have been listed in a FileMaker Pro database.<\/p>\n

This collection could be a good choice because there is interest not only to scholars focusing on music, but also those interested in visual images of the period and textual representations of inventions (telephone, airplane), events (elections, wars, fairs, etc.) and depictions of race, gender, and ethnicity (in particular African American, Native American, women, Jews.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, Peter Antelyes drew upon these for shared imagery and text depictions of American Indians and Jews.\u00a0 Even though our collection is relatively small, we may have unique items.<\/p>\n

Other schools have done quite a bit with their collections and LC has also included sheet music in its American memory project:
\nSee http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/music\/sheetmusic\/collections.html<\/a> for a selective list.<\/p>\n

Other thoughts (from Joanna):<\/p>\n

If we are able to get high-quality TIFFs in this process, we could try to use software that uses Optical Music Recognition (OMR) to make a sheet music “transcript” — see http:\/\/journal.code4lib.org\/articles\/84<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Scope<\/h2>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Phases of project<\/strong>
Based on item temporal coverage<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n		Phase 1: Digitize pre-1900 itemsPhase 2: Digitize 1900-present, checking for copyright issues<\/p>\n

Phase 3: Explore OMR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Number of items to be digitized<\/strong><\/td>\nApprox. 2,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total number of images<\/strong>
Assumption: one JPG derivative per each archival image created<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n		Approx. 3-5 pages per item, for totals of 6000-10,000 images<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total number of records<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Special considerations<\/strong><\/td>\nEstimates for space needed will vary widely depending on size of items, color depth for certain pages versus all-text pages (if any).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a>Location of Physical Items<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Unit<\/strong>s<\/td>\nLocation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMusic Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/a>Hardware\/Storage<\/h2>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
System type<\/strong><\/td>\nSystem<\/strong><\/td>\nSpace required<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Archival image storage<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derivative item storage<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TOTAL SPACE NEEDED<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a>Software<\/h2>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n
Image capture:<\/strong><\/td>\nTBD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metadata capture and storage:<\/strong><\/td>\nFileMaker database already created, unsure depth of metadata<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final product display:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a>File Naming Convention<\/h2>\n

<\/a>Formula<\/h3>\n