Collaborative Musicology:: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera

David Bainbridge; Rachel Elizabeth Cowgill; Frankie Perry; J. Stephen Downie; Alan J. Dix; Michael Twidale

doi:10.1145/3625135.3625147

Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera

David Bainbridge^*, Rachel Elizabeth Cowgill, Frankie Perry, J. Stephen Downie, Alan J. Dix, Michael Twidale

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Abstract

We explore the challenges and potential for collaborative musicological research in creating a digital library centred on musical ephemera relating to historical performances. Runs of concert programmes and season brochures, constituting a metadata-rich collection of highly formulaic homogeneous documents, are combined with related but extremely heterogeneous groups of documents (such as a contemporary musical dictionary, music society journal, composer directory, congress schedules) as well as scores, audio and other archival materials located on external websites. We give an overview of the prototype, explain how we fused general-purpose open-source software toolkits and libraries to develop an image-based digital library with editable annotations and backing store enhanced with linked data, and conclude by observing how well engaging with these code-bases worked out in practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DLfM 2023
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Editors	Martha E Thomas
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	119-127
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	979-8-4007-0833-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625147
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2023
Event	10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology - Milan, Italy Duration: 10 Nov 2023 → 10 Nov 2023 Conference number: 10

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceedings Series
Publisher	ACM

Conference

Conference	10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Abbreviated title	DLfM 23
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milan
Period	10/11/23 → 10/11/23

Keywords

digital libraries
software architecture
open source software
ephemeral content
music societies

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10.1145/3625135.3625147

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Bainbridge, D., Cowgill, R. E., Perry, F., Downie, J. S., Dix, A. J., & Twidale, M. (2023). Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera. In M. E. Thomas (Ed.), DLfM 2023: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (pp. 119-127). Article 18 (ACM International Conference Proceedings Series). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625147

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Bainbridge, D, Cowgill, RE , Perry, F, Downie, JS, Dix, AJ & Twidale, M 2023, Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera. in ME Thomas (ed.), DLfM 2023: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology., 18, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, ACM, New York, pp. 119-127, 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, Milan, Italy, 10/11/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625147

Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera. / Bainbridge, David; Cowgill, Rachel Elizabeth ; Perry, Frankie et al.
DLfM 2023: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. ed. / Martha E Thomas. New York: ACM, 2023. p. 119-127 18 (ACM International Conference Proceedings Series).

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Bainbridge D, Cowgill RE , Perry F, Downie JS, Dix AJ, Twidale M. Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera. In Thomas ME, editor, DLfM 2023: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. New York: ACM. 2023. p. 119-127. 18. (ACM International Conference Proceedings Series). doi: 10.1145/3625135.3625147

Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera

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The Internet of Musical Events: digital scholarship, community, and the archiving of performance (InterMusE)

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Collaborative Musicology: Designing a Digital Library of Musical Events Ephemera

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The Internet of Musical Events: digital scholarship, community, and the archiving of performance (InterMusE)

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