The site currently provides access to metadata and some digital images from
two sheet music collections from the Indiana University Lilly Library.Metadata
is available for the approximately 24,000 pieces in the Lilly Library's Sam
DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, along with digital images from
over 1,000 pieces in this collection. Metadata for over 500 pieces from the
Lilly's Starr Sheet Music Collection is available, as are digital images for
most of the Starr items.
This site supplements access to metadata for these two sheet music collections
that has been available to Open Archives Initiative (OAI) metadata harvesters
such as the Sheet Music
Consortium , the UIUC Digital
Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials , and the
University of Michigan's OAIster project since early 2003. We will
soon update these harvestable metadata records to include links to content we
have digitized so that users of these harvesting services may directly view the
sheet music that is online. We will also be adding digital images for
approximately 1,700 additional pieces from the DeVincent collection in the near
future.