Google starts indexing music?
Eagle-eyed Jeremy noticed this little tidbit buried in a press release describing the University of Wisconsin joining Google's effort to scan all printed material:
It will also target American and Wisconsin history, genealogical
materials, decorative arts and sheet music, among other subjects, the
University of Wisconsin said.
Jeremy wonders if
they'll just do it by title OCR, or if they'll actually take advantage
of some of the work that has been happening over the last 6 or 7 years
on sheet music OMR and sheet music melody search. For instance, at this
year's ISMIR, Don Byrd and Megan Schindele presented a paper entiled 'Prospects for Improving OMR with Multiple Recognizers'