The document discusses a project called "What's the Score at the Bodleian?" which uses crowd-sourcing to transcribe music scores held in the Bodleian Library, summarizing the progress made over 3 years in transcribing approximately 95% of 40,000 pages and lessons learned around how to best structure the transcription process. It also provides details on how to access the crowd-sourcing site, delivery site for completed transcriptions, related blog, and contact information for the project.

1. The Sound of the Crowd
What’s the score at the Bodleian?
David Tomkins
Bodleian Digital Library (BDLSS)
david.tomkins@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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13. Tabs required for music scores:
Tab 1: Creator
Tab 2: Title
Tab 3: Front cover
Tab 4: Illustrator
Tab 5: Publication
Tab 6: Back cover
Tab 7: Additional transcription
Tab 8: Genre
Tab 9: Predominant key
Tab 10: Predominant tempo
Tab 11: First line of lyrics

23. aggregate / review / edit
Contributors
Community
Audience
data collection
data delivery
(Zooniverse)
(Bodleian)

24. http://whats-the-score.org

25. http://scores.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

29. So far, so… good? bad?
Progress (3 years):
•Ca. 95% (40K+) pages transcribed to date
•50% of pages transcribed often enough to be accepted
•Review in summer 2015…
Lessons learned:
•Complexity vs simplicity
•Score-level rather than page-level
Recordings:
•Our super-user

32. What’s the score at the Bodleian?
Crowd-sourcing site: http://whats-the-score.org/
Delivery site: http://scores.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Blog:
http://whatsthescoreatthebodleian.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @whatscore
Email: david.tomkins@bodleian.ox.ac.uk