...Rose Sliger Krause; Andrea Langhurst Eickholt; Justin L. Otto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the music performance collection preserved in Eastern Washington University’s institutional repository (IR). This collection of recordings of student music performances is the result...

...Editor; Gail Thornburg; W. Michael Oskins Purpose Describing musical pieces, whether sound recordings, scores, librettos, videos, has always involved cataloger interpretation and judgment. There is considerable variation in records created for exactly the same item. And there is never “proof...

...Editor; Laurent Pugin; Andrew Hankinson; Ichiro Fujinaga Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new web‐based cataloguing system for the global music bibliography project, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), and discuss the implications for the manipulation...

...Editor; Juan Pablo Bello; Kent Underwood Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report recent advances on a collaborative project that aims to develop content‐based methods for music information retrieval (MIR) as an alternative to standard text‐based modes of access to digital music libraries...

...Nitin Arora Purpose The aim of this article is to describe the genesis and structural components for an open‐source MusicXML digital library platform. Design/methodology/approach After briefly discussing music information retrieval within the context of emerging approaches to digital music...

...Rice Majors; Stephen L. Mantz Purpose This article aims to examine how next‐generation library catalogs and discovery platforms have the potential to transform the challenges inherent in finding music materials in library collections. Design/methodology/approach The article discusses...

...Bryan Duggan; Brendan O'Shea Purpose This paper aims to describe the Tunepal project as an example of a music information retrieval (MIR) system that is having an impact on how musicians access, learn and play traditional Irish music around the world. Design/methodology/approach This paper...

...Bob Thomas Purpose Undergraduate music majors often search for resources in a limited number of formats. This developed a specialized search interface which might better support the needs of undergraduate music majors. The aim of this paper is to improve music resource discovery now, without...

... implementation in a music digital library system of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) suite of reports from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) that are being presented as revolutionizing library discovery systems. This paper seeks to examine...

... development of Variations2, the Indiana University digital music library. Findings Four major considerations for effective task design are described and illustrated. Areas explored include iterative task development, design of authentic activities, recruitment of authentic users and how to deal...

...Jenn Riley; Ichiro Fujinaga Like other complex visual articles with small details, musical scores are difficult to capture and present well in digital form. This article presents methods that can be used to reproduce detail and tone from printed scores for creating archival images, based on best...