MOVER [a Multimodal Open-Source Variorum eBook Reader]

FAIN: HD-51427-11

New York Public Library (New York, NY 10016-0109)
Doug Reside (Project Director: March 2011 to June 2014)

The development of a prototype mobile application to allow users to study multimedia variorum editions of musical theater plays.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) requests a Level II Start Up grant with which it proposes to develop MOVER [a Multimodal Open-Source Variorum eBook Reader], a mobile "app" that patrons will use to read and study media-enhanced editions of texts and musical scores that exist in multiple versions using the newly released ePub 3.0 ebook format and the Android mobile operating system. Project staff will test this software by creating a variorum (multiple version) edition of the libretto and score of the once enormously popular but now largely forgotten 1866 melodrama, The Black Crook. Using the software developed for this project, readers will be able to read the libretto and sheet music in multiple versions, while concurrently hearing the music associated with any particular line of the text or score.

Media Coverage

New York Public Library Releases A New App For Android (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Gary Price, Doug Reside
Publication: Library Journal
Date: 2/12/2014
Abstract: Explanation of Libretto project
URL: http://http://www.infodocket.com/2014/02/13/new-york-public-library-labs-debuts-new-app-for-android/

Announcing Libretto (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Doug Reside
Publication: NYPL
Date: 2/11/2014
URL: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/02/11/announcing-libretto

Associated Products

Libretto, a multimodal open-source variorum eBook reader -- App (Web Resource)
Title: Libretto, a multimodal open-source variorum eBook reader -- App
Author: Doug Reside
Abstract: Libretto is an Android app that patrons can use to read and study media-enhanced editions of texts and musical scores that exist in multiple versions using the newly-released ePub 3.0 ebook format and the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first release of the app (now available for free download on the Google Play store and from GitHub) includes a variorum (multiple version) edition of the libretto and score of the once enormously popular but now largely forgotten 1866 melodrama, The Black Crook. Using the software developed for this project, readers are able to read the libretto and sheet music in multiple versions and hear the associated music. We believe Libretto is the first open source software capable of presenting variorum and multimodal ebooks on an Android platform.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nypl.libretto
Primary URL Description: URL for Libretto app
Secondary URL: https://github.com/dougreside/Libretto
Secondary URL Description: URL for Libretto code

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