Indiana University.(funding received for "Creating the Digital Music Library" project)(Brief Article)

Indiana University (IU) has been awarded a four-year, three million dollar grant from the Digital Libraries Initiative-Phase 2 program, with support from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, for a proposal entitled "Creating the Digital Music Library." The project will build on the achievements of IU's VARIATIONS project, a digital library system for recorded music and images of musical notation previously developed at IU's William & Gayle Cook Music Library (Mary Wallace Davidson, Head).

The project will focus chiefly on test-bed development, and will investigate software and system architecture to provide networked access to digital music content (sound recordings, score images, encoded score notations, etc.) for both instruction and library services. Other areas of research include: 1) the use of digital libraries in music instruction; 2) usability and user-centered design; 3) intellectual property rights; and 4) ...