Finding Connections: Musical Collections and Social Networks
Exploring how modern informatics and network analysis techniques can inform musicological practise. As presented by Tim Crawford & Ben Fields at The Big Data History of Music study day on 11 March 2015 at the British Library
Early Music Online & ECOLM EMO (Early Music Online): c. 300 music sources printed before 1600 includes 28 lute sources in tablature (1,087 pieces), each of which contain arrangements of vocal music 3 keyboard tablature books (c. 230 pieces) ECOLM (Electronic Corpus of Lute Music): c. 3,000 pieces in tablature, encoded in TabCode to allow playback, transcription, analysis & searching includes 10 lute books from EMO (c. 500 pieces - soon)
Music ingestion and data correction Optical Mensural Music & Tablature Recognition -> Encoded music, but needs: Correction of (inevitable) OCR errors Collation Metadata – supplied by BL, but needs: Parsing MARC structure into a relational database Correction of (inevitable) human errors Alignment with encoded music
Tools for musicologists or librarians Web-based, because: Needs no special installations Just require a modern computer and internet Access to databases and other external resources well supported Graphical interfaces, images, audio, interaction are the norm Even music notation is (now) easy to render – as Laurent Pugin showed us earlier
Music ingestion and data correction Optical Tablature Recognition in ECOLM (Gamera) Encoded music Correction of (inevitable) OCR errors Collation Metadata Cleaning up structure Correction of (inevitable) human errors Alignment with encoded music
Music ingestion and data correction Optical Tablature Recognition in ECOLM Encoded music Correction of (inevitable) OCR errors Collation of corrections from two experts Metadata Cleaning up structure Correction of (inevitable) human errors Alignment with encoded music
Music ingestion and data correction Optical Music (& Tablature) Recognition Encoded music Correction of (inevitable) OCR errors Collation Metadata Cleaning up structure Correction of (inevitable) human errors Alignment with encoded music
Music ingestion and data correction Optical Mensural Music Recognition (Aruspix)! Encoded music (MEI)! Correction of (inevitable) OCR errors! Collation! Metadata! Cleaning up structure! Correction of (inevitable) human errors! Alignment with encoded music
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