Moody Blues: The Social Web, Tagging, and Nontextual Discovery Tools for Music

A common thread in discussions about the Next Generation Catalog is that it should incorporate features beyond the mere textual, one-way presentation of data. At the same time, traditional textual description of music materials often prohibits effective use of the catalog by specialists and nonspecialists alike. Librarians at Bowling Green State University have developed the HueTunes project to explore already established connections between music, color, and emotion, and incorporate those connections into a nontextual discovery tool that could enhance interdisciplinary as well as specialist use of the catalog

Challenges in cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking

Understanding and meeting the needs of a broad range of music users across different cultures and languages are central in designing a global music digital library. This exploratory study examines cross-cultural/multilingual music information seeking behaviors and reveals some important characteristics of these behaviors by analyzing 107 authentic music information queries from a Korean knowledge search portal Naver (knowledge) iN and 150 queries from Google Answers website. We conclude that new sets of access points must be developed to accommodate music queries that cross cultural or language boundaries

Analysis of Content and Digital Media Infusion Quality in Integrative STEM Education

This content and digital media analysis study was conducted within a graduate level course involving experienced science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education practitioners. Participants assessed aural/visual proposals producing an overall score, a content score, and a digital media infusion score. The scores were tabulated and analyzed for assocations within assessed clusters, specific evaluative considerations when factoring overall score, and diffenences among associative clusters. It was determined, through formulation of the Spearman’s Rho correlation matrix and further analysis through the Fisher z-transformation output, that experienced STEM educator content score correlation coefficients were statistically higher than the experienced STEM educator digital media score correlation coefficients

A Server-Side User Study of UNC-Chapel Hill's 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection Database

Hansi Hoskins. A Server-Side User Study of UNC-Chapel Hill's 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection Database. A Master's paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. April, 2010. 32 pages. Advisor: Diane Kelly This study describes a server-side user study of UNC-Chapel Hill's 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection Database. The study was based on the transaction logs of the database and was conducted to learn about the search pathways, and habits of the users of the database. The information collected from the transaction logs included IP addresses, time-stamps, URLs, and referrers. This data provided information about the amount of time users spend actively searching the database, the how users are querying the database, the results they are receiving from their query, and the documents they chose from the results page. Headings: Music Information Retrieval Sheet Music Databases Server-Side User Study Sheet Music Database 19th-Century American Sheet Music

Social software for music

Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Informática e Computação. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 200

From Printed Score to Performance: Access and Collaboration in the New Zealand Orchestral Community

Research into the practical needs and activities of orchestra librarians in New Zealand is rare. This study explores how orchestra librarians and conductors search for, access and manage printed music for the orchestras' players. The constraints of access and availability and the collaborative relationships that enable the sharing of resources are also examined. The research uses a qualitative approach with data collected from open-ended interview questions with eighteen participants who come from professional and amateur orchestras and the National Library of New Zealand. The findings show that orchestras in New Zealand access music from many different sources and the National Library plays a key role in this activity. The groups face constraints in accessing contemporary music (except New Zealand music) due to cost and copyright issues and there are constraints relating to the condition and use of printed hire music. The report concludes that there is a need for a national orchestra association in New Zealand to provide support for both amateur and professional orchestras. Cataloguing projects to increase the visibility and access of existing music resources and training programmes for performance librarians are other areas that are considered