MIT Project: submission of 14,000 scores

Post by **imslp** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:00 pm

Recently a MIT professor has contacted me giving IMSLP permission to use his personal collection of more than 14,000 scanned (mostly piano) scores that he hosts. However, due to the high likelihood of site ripping, I will not publicly post the URL. Instead, the URL will only be available to project members.

The requirements of becoming a member is that there be significant contribution prior to the announcement of this project. This is just as additional protection against site ripping. I will choose a few contributors who sign up as the starting project members.

Anyone who is interested please reply here

goldberg988 · Post by **goldberg988** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:35 pm

Wow, that's incredible! Please count me in!

Post by **imslp** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:08 pm

And your in

I'll send you the URL soon... have to put up the project page first.

Post by **daphnis** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:01 pm

I, too, would like to help get these scores to IMSLP!

emeraldimp · Post by **emeraldimp** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:33 pm

If you'll use me, I'll help when able!

Post by **Carolus** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:10 am

As the late baseball announcer Harry Carey used to always yell - Holy Cow! I'll be happy to help, with the caveat that my free time is quite limited at present.

horndude77 · Post by **horndude77** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:21 am

I'd love to help if you want me.

Post by **imslp** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:23 am

All four of you are in

I will create the project page right now and send you the URLs via PM on the forums.

Post by **imslp** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:02 am

Project page created:

http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Community_P ... IT_archive

Post by **imslp** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:21 am

URLs sent. Please check your pm message box here on the forums (click the link at the top between "profile" and "log out").

mcroskell · Post by **mcroskell** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:32 am

I'll be glad to help out if you're still looking to add more people to the project.

Post by **daphnis** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:25 am

Wow, this is a lot. How do you think we should proceed? I was thinking something along the lines of taking it one folder at a time (since this is how it's structured), and perhaps creating a master list of the directories on the project page and letting us add our names to the sides of the ones we'll undertake? Just a thought...
I see lots of my original scans in this collection, which makes me feel proud that so many of my scores are out amongst 'em

EDIT: I now see on the project page it has been decided to be broken down into letters.

Post by **Funper** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:35 am

Count me in to..!

Post by **imslp** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:04 am

Done.

Post by **Leonard Vertighel** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:09 am

I was wondering (I don't have experience with score submission): Do you think it might be faster to create a spreadsheet (or something similar) with the file URLs + meta data, rather than submitting the files one by one? For if that is the case, I could teach 5Y to create work pages, download the files and submit them to IMSLP (reading the necessary info from the spreadsheet). Just a thought, I really have no idea if that would be much more efficient than doing everything manually.

In any case, I don't have time to work on it right now, but maybe in august or september. Let me know what you think...