A Methodology for Quality Assessment in Collaborative Score Libraries

We examine quality issues raised by the development of XML-based Digital Score Libraries. Based on the authors’ practical experience, the paper exposes the quality shortcomings inherent to the complexity of music encoding, and the lack of support from state-of-the-art formats. We also identify the various facets of the “quality” concept with respect to usages and motivations. We finally propose a general methodology to introduce quality management as a first-level concern in the management of score collections.