Stephen Davison

The David Livingstone spectral imaging project

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is a collaborative, international effort to use spectral imaging technology and digital publishing to make available a series of faded, illegible texts produced by the famous Victorian explorer when he was stranded without ink or writing paper in Central Africa. The poster describes existing achievements of the project, plans for an innovative portal providing access to images and data, and preservation challenges.

Enhancing an OAI-PMH Service Using Linked Data: A Report from the Sheet Music Consortium

This article discusses the metadata records aggregated by the Sheet Music Consortium using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The consortiums website serves as a union catalog for more than a quarter of a million records, harvested from 27 providers. During a recent period of revision, the consortium decided to experiment with normalizing data and publishing authority data related to sheet music. A pilot project focused on sheet music publishers is discussed and the results are presented.

Museum materials in a digital library context and beyond

This poster will present an overview of metadata mappings needed to support access, collaboration, preservation and aggregation of museum content within and beyond a digital library context.

Twentieth-century music

Presents a comprehensive exploration of twentieth-century musical idioms within their larger political, social, economic, and cultural contexts. This book provides an overview of the vast array of technical principles that characterize modern music and at the same time reveals the distinguishing features of the numerous styles. Organized into historical and theoretical-analytical portions, this book illustrates topics with in-depth analyses of one or more works of a given composer citing illustrates topics with in-depth analyses of one or more works of a given composer. Musicians, music teachers, and music enthusiasts.