title

British Library Online Gallery: Virtual Books

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description

Digitized treasures from the British Library collections, including: Mozart's manuscript record of his compositions from February 1784 to December 1791; the draft manuscript of Handel's Messiah, and My Ladye Nevells Booke, containing William Byrd's complete keyboard music. Audio files are aligned to images

creator or project

British Library Online Gallery: Virtual Books

type

Digital Library

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

listeners

task or research field

music history

musicology

music listening

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

Shares data in open data formats

Provides user-friendly search interfaces

Offers data export or dump

Serves machine-readable music data

Offers playable music records

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type of collected resources

Score

category of data collected

Symbolic

music data features

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<100000

data formats

mp3

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data license

Open Access

data size

~Gb