IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana
Indiana University's Digital Library Program is pleased to announce the
release of IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana.
(http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/inharmony/) This website
provides access to thousands of pieces of sheet music from the Indiana
State Library, the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana Historical Society
and the Indiana University Lilly Library and was developed by the
Indiana University Digital Library Program with funding from the
Institute of Museum and Library Services. Drawn primarily from the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the collection includes
works by well-known composers such as George M. Cohan, Cole Porter, Al
Jolson, and Jerome Kern. The sheet music collections of the Indiana
State Library, Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society
have been completely digitized. Thousands of items from the Lilly
Library sheet music collections are currently part of the site. Work
continues on creating records for more of the approximately 150,000
pieces held by the Lilly Library. As the records are completed they
will be systematically added to the site.
The IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool
As part of the IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana IMLS project, a
sheet music cataloging tool was developed to assist libraries,
archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music
collections in a robust and standards-based way. This is a production
system of the Indiana University Digital Library Program and was used
to catalog more than 10,000 pieces of sheet music for the IN Harmony
project. The tool collects descriptive metadata about sheet music and
exports it in the MODS, simple Dublin Core, and OAI-PMH Static
Repository formats. It is available under a BSD license from the IN
Harmony Cataloging Tool SourceForge Project
(http://inharmonycat.sourceforge.net/ ) in three formats: as a Windows
installer, as a MacOS installer, and as source code.
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Stacy Kowalczyk
Associate Director, Projects and Services
Digital Library Program
Indiana University
Wells Library W501
(812) 855-8758
www.dlib.indiana.edu
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