Adding content-based searching to a traditional music library catalogue server
Matthew Dovey · 2001
Most online music library catalogues can only be searched by textual m etadata. Whilst highly effective - since the rules for maintaining consistency have been refined over many years - this does not allow searching by musical content. Many music librarians are familiar with users humming their enquiries. Most systems providing a “query by humming&r dquo; interface tend to run independently of music library catalogue systems and not offer similar textual metadata searching. This paper discusses the ongoing investigative work on integrating these two types of system conducted as part of the NSF/JISC funded OMRAS project (http://www.omras.org).