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INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
IN Harmony Query Logs Analysis Study: Final Report
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/projectinfo/userStudies/finalReport_
INHarmonyLogsAnalysis.pdf
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Infrequent but interesting searches of other metadata elements such as identification numbers and
keys should be considered as part of the metadata model
Website Delivery Functionality
High use of browse interfaces in IU Sheet Music and use of broad wildcard searching (e.g. b*)
and year range searches suggests the benefit of comprehensive browse menus for additional
access points and to provide an overall sense of the contents of the collections
Number of query syntax errors resulting in no hits though few suggests that flexible keyword
searching functionality should be supported (complex Boolean searching, wildcarding, truncation,
etc.)
Prominence of wide-range of searches, from “classical” to contemporary music, may require the
need to clarify the contents of a the collection with a “Collection Highlights” section
II. Introduction
Indiana University (IU), the Indiana State Library (ISL), the Indiana State Museum (ISM), and the
Indiana Historical Society (IHS) received a grant, effective October 1, 2004, from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to provide electronic access to Indiana-related sheet music from
each of the institutions’ collections. Approximately 10,000 pieces of sheet music will be available online
as a result of this grant activity.
III. Purpose of Study
A primary goal for this project is to provide robust, consistent browse and search access across
collections. As a result, cataloging guidelines and tools for sheet music description will be developed to
aide the project partners in a) cataloging sheet music not yet described in their respective collections and
b) mapping existing cataloging records to a format that will facilitate cross-collection searching.
In order to generate cataloging guidelines and requirements, we needed to understand how sheet music is
browsed and searched. We evaluated a subset of the query logs captured by the Indiana University Sheet
Music Collection1 (housed at Indiana University) and the Sheet Music Consortium2 (housed at University
of California, Los Angeles) websites to learn the following:
How often users conduct a browse, search or advanced search for sheet music
How often users conduct known-item (specific) versus unknown-item (general) searching
What kinds of searches are being conducted (keyword, title, name, subject, etc.)
What kinds of subject-related queries are being entered by users (e.g. topical, genre, style, etc.)
Analyzing the log data also helped us determine preliminary browse and search interface and
functionality requirements for the IN Harmony website.
1 http://dlib.indiana.edu/collections/sheetmusic/
2 http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
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