Interfaces for Document Representation in Digital Music Libraries
Abstract
Musical documents, that is, documents whose primary content is printed music, introduce interesting design challenges for presentation in an online environment. Considerations for the unique properties of printed msic, as well as users’ expected levels of comfort with
these materials, present opportunities for developing a viewer specifically tailored to displaying musical documents. This paper outlines five design considerations for a music document viewer, drawing examples from existing digital music libraries. We then present our work towards incorporating these considerations in a new digital music library system
currently under development.
these materials, present opportunities for developing a viewer specifically tailored to displaying musical documents. This paper outlines five design considerations for a music document viewer, drawing examples from existing digital music libraries. We then present our work towards incorporating these considerations in a new digital music library system
currently under development.
Date Issued
2009
Publication Type
Conference Item
Language(s)
en
Author(s)
Hankinson, Andrew | |
Fujinaga, Ichiro |
Additional Credits
Publisher
International Society for Music Information Retrieval
ISBN
978-0-9813537-0-8
Access(Rights)
metadata.only