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I've been a contributor to IMSLP for over a decade. Sometimes I upload scores, but I also like add content. I've created a few profiles of publishers, added works and thematic numbers to the list of Vivaldi works, and fleshed out the contents of Fellowes's edition of The English Madrigal School. I have access to a good music library with lots of resources.

What would be some other useful projects? (I suspect I'm not the only person interested in supplying information. Perhaps a wishlist of tasks could be created and maintained.)

So what do you think of my EMS volumes I had added so far? Also BTW if your wondering about the pages with the content sizing being a bit off is due to my camera scanning the pages and not on a flatbed scanner.

Browse https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Wishlist and see if items are in your library.

Sallen112 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:09 am So what do you think of my EMS volumes I had added so far? Also BTW if your wondering about the pages with the content sizing being a bit off is due to my camera scanning the pages and not on a flatbed scanner.

I know those volumes, printed on horrible paper so that they're all falling apart. That you could produce such spotless scans is really a wonder that I'm sure almost no one realizes! Bravo!

coulonnus wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 6:57 am Browse https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Wishlist and see if items are in your library.

Yes, I try to keep aware of the Wishlists (I just edited one this week). But I was talking about non-scan-work that I could do to enhance the usefulness of the website. I see some people have created worklists (the one for Chaminade was very helpful when I scanned some of her work!). I see some people add keys and contents of song collections - I might get into that. I think a wishlist of non-scan tasks would be helpful, especially to those who don't have the ability to produce scans.

This biggest problem dealing with volumes of this quality of ink being printed onto the paper is they leave alot of splotches on the paper around the engraving itself with messy ink factory processes from the printing factory. So I have to spend alot of time properly selecting the content itself is a major problem with old editions like this from the early 20th century. Otherwise the margins will be majorly off and the images not properly margined correctly.