Shared spaces for digital music scores – CollabScore

The project is dedicated to the collaborative digitization of music scores currently available only as images in museum collections. The workflow begins with an OMR (Optical Music Recognition) step, producing an incomplete or incorrect score. The second step relies on a crowdsourcing correction effort, in which a community of users will partially improve the scores. The reconciliation step of the different versions will be automatised with specifically developed software, to obtain a reference score. This fulcrum notation will then be used in conjunction with several sources, to enhance the user experience. For instance, listening could be assisted by the synchronized scrolling of the score, and augmented with musicological annotations. The project aims at solving some scientific challenge, first by guiding and controlling an OMR process with musical knowledge, then by elaborating an automated crowdsourcing process. A demonstrator will be delivered, to be used by our user-case partner