Variations2: improving music findability in a digital library through work-centric metadata

h user interface (Fig. 1) is the search fields such as key or performer. A second benefit is the ability to navigate directly to the desired work within a multi-work item. A third benefit is the introduction of stepwise disambiguation of the user’s search criteria. The disambiguation process varies depending both on what fields the user fills in and the actual content of the digital library. Disambiguation steps are inserted in the search process when all of the search criteria can be satisfied by a variety of results, but the specified name or work title is ambiguous with respect to the database contents. Thus our implementation demonstrates some of the benefits of a work-centric, music-specific metadata model. Libra entric Mark No Digital Library Progr Cook Music Lib Indiana Univer