S. Tuppen. Early Music Online: Opening up the British Library's 16th-Century Music Books
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Early Music Online A pilot project to digitise 300 of the earliest volumes of printed music from the British Library’s collections Opening up the British Library’s music collection to all • Some of the world’s oldest and rarest printed music (ca. 21,000 images) to be made freely available online • Open educational licence to encourage use and re-purposing of content and embedding in teaching and research Enhancing resource discovery • Detailed inventories of the books’ contents to be created for the first time, with access points for composer and title • Data to be included in British Library catalogue, COPAC and RISM music database, with links to digitised content from each Encouraging digital scholarship • Digital images to be provided to Aruspix project, which is developing an OCR and transcription tool for early music Sharing best practice • Results of pilot project to be shared with others involved in the digitisation of music sources www.earlymusiconline.org Funded by JISC as part of the Rapid Digitisation programme 2011
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Early Music Online
A pilot project to digitise 300 of the earliest volumes of printed music from the British Library’s collections
Opening up the British Library’s music collection to all• Some of the world’s oldest and rarest printed music (ca. 21,000 images) to be made freely available online• Open educational licence to encourage use and re-purposing of content and embedding in teaching and research
Enhancing resource discovery• Detailed inventories of the books’ contents to be created for the first time, with access points for composer and title• Data to be included in British Library catalogue, COPAC and RISM music database, with links to digitised content from each
Encouraging digital scholarship• Digital images to be provided to Aruspix project, which is developing an OCR and transcription tool for early music
Sharing best practice• Results of pilot project to be shared with others involvedin the digitisation of music sources
www.earlymusiconline.org
Funded by JISC as part of the Rapid Digitisation programme 2011
