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Sounds cool, Gary. I agree with Brooke: the MusicIR community (J. Stephen Downie & many others) would be a good starting point. The work I'm aware of goes the other way -- starting from scores. For instance, here's the Bodelain's crowdsourced digital annotation project: http://www.whats-the-score.org/ Andrew Bullen also did a talk in 2008 and Code4Lib journal article about Optical Music Recognition: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/84 You can get to a video from: http://www.niso.org/blog/?p=5 On the crowdsourcing front, you might look at the nichesourcing approach to get stuff to the right people: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/papers/Boer12b.pdf Let us know how it goes! -Jodi On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Gary McGath <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm doing some volunteer work on a project for a basement sound engineer > and publisher who has a large collection of recordings from conventions, > and wants to crowdsource identification of them with the people who > attend those conventions. > > The idea is that people would be able to log in to a website, see a list > of short clips they can play, and enter identifying information such as > song title, performers, and instruments. It occurs to me that this might > have broader usefulness among libraries, archives, and researchers. If > so, it may be worth expanding this into a bigger open-source project and > seeking crowdfunding for developing it further, getting nice graphics, > etc. (Crowdfunding for crowdsourcing just seems right.) > > On the other hand, the most common result when I come up with a great > idea is discovering that someone else has already done it better than I > could. > > Obviously there are copyright issues. That's why only logged-in users > with a legitimate need can play the clips for identification purposes. > There may be other protections as well, such as limited-time availability. > > So I'm interested in thoughts on this. Does it duplicate something that > already exists? Would it be generally useful? > > -- > Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer > http://www.garymcgath.com >