I just stumbled on a commercial system called Synthesia, which seems to offer an avenue to some annotated corpora. They have MIDIfied a big chunk of Hanon and some Czerny beginner book. But I don't quite understand their file format yet. It does appear to be human-readable, but the fingers are supposed to be numbered 1-5 (for the left hand) and 6-0 (for the right), to align with the digits on a QWERTY keyboard. But I can't seem to line this up with the sample of Czerny files I have downloaded. Still, just having the MIDI will save me some time. It should be pretty quick just to read strings of digits out of Hanon. MIDI + fingers = corpus. Less than ideal, but it is something. I was going to nose around and see if I could find anything else.
There was even an effort started in 2009 by someone named "Frost" to automate the generation of fingering hints for Synthesia. This project, as described in the Synthesia forum (where a binary .NET distribution is made available), combines the approaches described in the Parncutt, Jacobs, and Kasimi papers. Active development seems essentially to have stalled a few years ago, but there are many lessons to glean from this forum thread.
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