6/25 ALA Direct picks up "Using OMR"

[Jodi Schneider]

This week's ALA Direct mentions of Andrew Bullen's C4LJ article:

Using Optical Music Recognition
Andrew H. Bullen writes: "As an (admittedly amateur) local historian, it has been frustrating to be presented with spectacular examples of sheet music that give shape and depth to history yet be totally inept at playing the tunes on a piano or other musical instrument. Happily, as it turns out, through a combination of Optical Music Recognition (OMR) and music composing software, I can scan the music, 'read' it to detect the notes, time signature, etc., and tweak its playback to get just the right sound I want."...
Code4Lib Journal, no. 3 (June 23)


Thanks, George Eberhart, Jenny Levine, et. al!

-Jodi

PS-There's a great lightning talk on this one, worth linking in the comments.