Toward melodic access and title uniformity in the Chopin Early Editions music digital library

The Chopin Early Editions (CEE) music digital library (MDL), housed and created by The University of Chicago Library, is a collection of approximately 400 first and early edition music scores by the composer Frederic Chopin. Published between 1830 and 1880, these scores provide an important resource for studying Chopin´s publishing history, and include many examples of works published concurrently in different countries with textual variations. The online collection is generated programmatically from scanned score images (approximately 13,300 images) and human-created descriptive and structural metadata records, encoded as METS objects. The Greenstone Digital Library Software (GSDL) provides the basic organizational and retrieval mechanisms.