Whats the Score at the Bodleian?

An Analysis of Oxfords Online Music Catalog

Stephen Russell
The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford
First opened in 1602

Founded by Sir Thomas Bodley

The second largest library in Britain

Contains over 12 million printed items

Consistently expanding over the years

Most recent renovation was in 2015

http://www.travelandleisure.com/sites/default/files/styles/
The Website: Background Information
Main goal/purpose: ...to investigate a cost-effective approach to increasing
access to music scores from the Bodleian's collections, to be achieved by a
combination of rapid digitization and the creation of descriptive metadata
through crowd-sourcing.

Project is funded primarily through Google and a number of participants

Website is currently a beta version and is still under development

The Website: Its Contents
The site contains piano sheet music from 1860-1880, including dance music
and pieces designed for home entertainment.

Currently holds 3,511 works in the online catalog

The music was previously uncatalogued and is being used as the sample for
the crowdsourcing project.

Currently does not contain music of other genres or time periods

The Website: The Host(s)
The University at Oxford is one of the leading research institutions in the
world and has been held in high esteem internationally for centuries.

The music sources on the site were originally collected unbound in 64 boxes
before being catalogued online.

The University has partnered with a volunteer organization called Zooniverse

for the crowdsourcing project

Zooniverse consists of hundreds of thousands of researchers who devote their time and
money to make research more practical

The use of uncatalogued piano music is intended to improve access to the material, encourage wider
engagement with the Bodleian's music collections and facilitate research into amateur music-making
The Website: Navigation
Homepage: contains a description, overview of the site, upper and lower menu bars, and a
disclaimer stating that the site is under development

Search: allows navigator to search by title, composer, and/or shelfmark in the library

Advanced Search: also allows navigator to search by tempo, key, lyrics (when applicable), publisher,
and illustrators of the covers

Browse: provides navigator with all catalogued works in alphabetical order by song/piece title only

Contribute: redirects navigator to the Zooniverse page to make donations

About Us: provides more information to the purpose of the site and its creators.

Bottom Menu: provides explanations to the navigation menu, terms and conditions, disclaimers, and
a link to contact the University.
Works Cited
Bodleian. (n.d.). Libraries. Retrieved September 18, 2016, http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

University of Oxford. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2016, from https://http://www.ox.ac.uk/

Whats the score at the Bodleian. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2016 from http://scores.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/home

Zooniverse. (n.d.). Retrieved September 18, 2016, from https://www.zooniverse.org/