This document is from 1995 and is made available only for historical reasons. As a library-oriented project, it will result in the digitization of information objects associated with music. Music as a discipline represents an ideal setting to understand these issues and to deploy these services. Music's primary information format is sound, and to a lesser extent, video.
Music also uses traditional textual and graphic data.
Furthermore, the sound quality involved, particularly associated with an internationally known School of Music, is of primary importance. Future goals include the distribution of score notation and the development of score databases. Digitizing multimedia information allows each student to control, independently and interactively, multimedia sources. The state of the analog source at the time of conversion will be preserved in digital form. Analog sources, such as long-playing records, cassette tapes, and videocassettes once converted into digital form will not deteriorate with use.