Democratising Digitisation: Making History with Community Music Societies in Digitally Enabled Collaborations

TY - CONF

T1 - Democratising Digitisation

T2 - 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology

AU - Cowgill, Rachel Elizabeth

AU - Dix, Alan

AU - Bashford, Christina

AU - Downie, J. Stephen

AU - Twidale, Michael

AU - Reagan, Maureen

AU - Ridgwell, Rupert

AU - McVeigh, Simon

PY - 2020/10/16

Y1 - 2020/10/16

N2 - In post-COVID times we are focusing quite rightly on the plight of our major cultural institutions; but just as important are the local societies that enrich our community life, including amateur music societies, devastated by stringent social-distancing requirements and the health and safety implications of live performance in small spaces. We propose a vision of digitally enabled collaboration that may help these societies rebuild their sense of community and purpose, by working together with academics, archives, and a major US arts centre to reconnect with their past and enrich understanding of their own histories and traditions within a broader national context.

AB - In post-COVID times we are focusing quite rightly on the plight of our major cultural institutions; but just as important are the local societies that enrich our community life, including amateur music societies, devastated by stringent social-distancing requirements and the health and safety implications of live performance in small spaces. We propose a vision of digitally enabled collaboration that may help these societies rebuild their sense of community and purpose, by working together with academics, archives, and a major US arts centre to reconnect with their past and enrich understanding of their own histories and traditions within a broader national context.

KW - musicology

KW - performance history

KW - digital archives

KW - digital humanities

KW - ephemera

KW - concerts

KW - Linked Data

KW - open data

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 16 October 2020 through 16 October 2020

ER -