Project Briefing: Specialized OAI Service Providers: Sheet Music Harvester - A Work in Progress Kristine Brancolini Director, Digital Library Program Indiana University Stephen Davison Music Librarian, Special Collections University of California, Los Angeles Curtis Fornadley Digital Library Lead Programmer University of California, Los Angeles Cynthia Requardt Kurrelmeyer Curator of Special Collections Johns Hopkins University Stpehen H. Schwartz Head, Library Information Systems/Development University of California, Los Angeles To move beyond basic OAI services requires community agreement on potential user needs, data standards, special software capabilities, and data conversion and mapping strategies to support a useful Service Provider. This project tests collaboration in designing a specialized OAI Service for Sheet Music. It will also test the value of such a service as a research tool for music and other communities. Sheet music is a rich resource for scholars in a number of disciplines, but unlocking its potential has proved a daunting task for the custodians of these collections. Resources have been expended to provide access to sheet music on a local level, and it is the interoperability with this existing metadata, as well as new data with digital images linked, that this project addresses. Other questions addressed include: Is unqualified Dublin Core too simplistic? Can usability testing and focus groups identify areas in which the data model can be standardized and enriched? Can we effectively incorporate qualified DC and/or authority control over data gathered from multiple sources? This session will demonstrate and discuss the process and preliminary results of Phase One of the project and outline the next phase. Web Links: Sheet Music Consortium: Gateway to Sheet Music Collections Handout: Specialized OAI Service Providers: Sheet Music Harvester--A Work in Progress (MS Word document)