The Probado Music Repository at the Bavarian State Library

In this paper, we describe the Probado music repository which is currently set up at the Bavarian State Library, Munich, as part of the larger German Probado digital library initiative. Based on the FRBR approach, we propose a novel work-centric metadata model for organizing the document collection. The primary data contained in the repository currently consists of scanned sheet music and digitized audio recordings. The repository can be searched using both classical and content-based retrieval mechanisms. To this end, we propose a workflow for automated content-based document analysis and indexing.