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The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.

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News

• June 6, 2013

  Linked Open Data project

  The Sheet Music Consortium is exposing music publisher information extracted from the Consortium's data as linked open data LOD). Read more...

• February 15, 2013

  Collections and services update

  The Sheet Music Consortium now provides cross collection searching to 22 sheet music collections and a total of 226,914 items. If you manage a collection that you would like to be searchable through this site read the Participationpage and contact us!

   

  New services to be added soon include the ability to download records, assign additional metadata and save back to the Consortium, search user contributed metadata, and access our RSS feed.

• June 7, 2011

  New Collections, New Services
  http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/smcmigrator/

  Starting today this site becomes the official site of the Sheet Music Consortium.
  The previous site is still temporarily available for reference purposes at http://digital.library.ucla.edu/smc/. The new site offers improved searching and browsing, access to collections at 16 institutions (up from seven), and guidelines for the creation of descriptive metadata.

   

  In addition there is a Metadata Mapping Tool, developed at Indiana University, making it possible to upload, crosswalk and validate metadata from a variety of sources, including plain text files, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls or .xlsx), or dBase files (.dbf). If you have data in one of these formats, then that data can probably be contributed to the Consortium. The Mapping Tool exports an XML file containing metadata that can be harvested by the Sheet Music Consortium and made available for searching on the Consortium Web site. In addition to the data mapping function, the tool includes a data validation function, which tests the metadata against the Consortium's sheet music metadata best practices. More information is available here.

• March 25, 2011

  New Sheet Music Consortium Web Site Published: http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/

  Welcome to the newly redesigned Sheet Music Consortium Web site. The new site improves performance and services provided previously, and provides access to new tools for metadata creation and evaluation, creation of OAI-compliant static repositories, and a Static Repository Gateway for metadata harvesting. Additional services will be added over the next six months.

• March 21, 2011

  Metadata Mapping Tool Now Available: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/smcmigrator/

  The Metadata Mapping Tool is part of a suite of tools that will allow museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage organizations to make their locally stored sheet music records available for online searching on the Sheet Music Consortium portal. With this tool Sheet music collection managers can map their sheet music records into MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema), DC (Dublin Core) and QDC (Qualified Dublin Core) to create OAI-compliant XML records. The tool will upload data from a variety of source formats (e.g. text or Excel spreadsheet files), walk the user through a process to map data from their locally defined metadata to a standard schema (MODS, DC, QDC), and output an XML file that is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative standard for a Static Repository. That Static Repository can then be harvested by the Consortium metadata harvester for inclusion in the Sheet Music Consortium Web site.