Presentation given at the ALISS Crowdsourcing conference 12th August 2015

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

7. 2
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" quaffed fill ntie boy as deep as deep a draught
as"
" fill me bofy fill me boy as deep as deep a draught
as“
" I fill me boy fill me boy as deep as deep a draught
as"
" fill me boy fill me, boy as deep as deep a draught
as“
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" e'er was fill'd as eer was quaff'd,“
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" eJer was filVd as e'er was quaff'd, But let the“
" .565"

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