NFDI4Culture Community Musicology

Using a wide range of methods, musicological communities generate data on tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Research topics range from musical practice – for example, in concerts and musical theatre, religion and everyday life – through to instruments, the impact and perception of music, and extend to musical scores, editions and music-theoretical analyses.

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The generated data includes, for example, historical and current performance data, 3D scans from instrument studies, data from room acoustics research, audio and video data, motion capture data and movement notations, as well as XML mark-ups such as MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) and MPM (Music Performance Markup) in the fields of music editing and performance studies. 
Furthermore, digital musicology is constantly working on the maintenance and further development of digital tools, e.g. for the use of artificial intelligence, for the rendering of encoded musical scores, for analyses in music information retrieval, and for optical music recognition based on machine learning. 
This process generates data that is subject to copyright and related rights or originates from sensitive contexts; it frequently raises legal questions, which are addressed with the aim of achieving the greatest possible openness whilst adhering to ethical and legal principles. 
For musicological research and the cultural sector alike, the use of standardised, interoperable formats for data and metadata is crucial to ensuring the quality of the data collected. A range of subject-specific repositories is available for the publication of data, enabling legally compliant, long-term availability, storage and referencing.
Within the Culture Steering Board (CSB) of NFDI4Culture, the musicologal community is represented by the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM, https://www.musikforschung.de/) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML). In addition, our partners include the International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM, https://rism.info/) and the Specialised Information Service for Musicology ((musiconn, https://www.musiconn.de/), that supports digital research and open access publications.
NFDI4Culture provides answers and support in all these areas in the form of guidance documents, advice and the facilitation of services.

Members of the NFDI4Culture Steering Board Community Representatives

Prof. Dr. Kathrin Kirsch
Dominik Leipold, M. Sc., M. A.
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Cornelia Schöntube, M. A.

Services for you! NFDI4Culture Services

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Annotation, Terminology Lookup and Personalization (Antelope)

Antelope is a free, open source service to support your data annotation. It offers terminology search, entity linking, and easy integration into your projects.

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cartographer-app

The Cartographer App is used to provide placement information for zones of interest in (historical) documents. The first...

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CollAna

Tool for comparison of printed music scores.

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Cultural Research Data Academy

The Cultural Research Data Academy (CRDA) is the central point of contact within NDFI4Culture for the coordination and organisation of trainings and educational activities.

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Culture Collaboration Cloud: Nextcloud

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Culture Data Search

The NFDI4Culture Data Search provides a central access point to the multimodal datasets from NFDI4Culture’s research domains, enabling the exploration of diverse cultural heritage data in one place.

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Culture GND SPARQL Endpoint

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Culture Information Portal

The Culture Information Portal serves as the gateway and single point of access to all services, data and information resources offered by the NFDI4Culture consortium.

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Culture Knowledge Graph Kitchen (ETL Environment)

The Culture Knowledge Graph Kitchen is a versatile ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) environment designed for efficient...

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Culture Research Output Index

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Curated Repository List

The Curated Repository List provides an overview of subject-specific and generic repositories for the 4Culture communities which offer sustainable publication and archiving solutions in different media formats.

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Educational Resource Finder

The Educational Resource Finder of the Cultural Research Data Academy (CRDA) presents subject-specific and generic educational and training offers, geared towards the various NFDI4C-Communities.

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Flex Funds

Funding of projects and measures for the needs-driven (further) development of research tools and data services in the NFDI4Culture communities.

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GND-Editor

Via the GND-Editor new authority records for muscal works can be entered into the GND. The GND-Editor is a useful tool...

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IncipitSearch

Search engine for music-incipits.

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Knowledge Base

The NFDI4Culture Knowledge Base contains guidelines, reports, and specifications by the task areas of the consortium.

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Measure Detector

Web application for creation, update and saving of information in TEI and MEI.

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mei-friend MEI Editor

mei-friend is a friendly, zero-install, browser-based MEI editor for music encodings, with schema-based autocompletion,...

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MEIGarage

Platform for validation and transformation of music specific formats.

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Semantic Kompakkt

Semantic Kompakkt is a free and open source toolchain for the viewing and annotation of 3D models, and other visual media within a linked open data (LOD) environment.

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SMuFL-Browser

SMuFL-Browser is a web based viewer for the Standard Music Font Layout specification which facilitates searching and...

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Sustainability Framework Overview

Sustainability Framework

The Sustainability Framework is a guideline consisting of moderated workshops, enabling NFDI4Culture teams to independently develop and operate services.

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Wikibase4Research

Wikibase4Research is a free and open source suite of tools for the storage and management of Linked Open Data (LOD).

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Curated List for your Community Data Portals

APSearch

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Beethoven-Haus Bonn – Digital Archives

Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe – Digital Edition

CORPUS MONODICUM digital

Cultural Heritage Cologne

Data portal Detmolder Hoftheater 1825–1875

Dataportal of the German Digital Library

Digital Catalogue Raisonné – Gluck-Gesamtausgabe

Freischütz Digital

MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online

museum-digital – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

MUSICES – Project database

musiconn.performance

musiXplora

RIdIM Database on Music and Dance in Art

RISM Catalog

RISM Online

Sachsen.digital

SLUB Media Library

Ways to Telemann digital – Catalogue Raisonné

Wolfgang Laade Music of Man Archive

Curated List for your Community Repositories

DARIAH-DE Repository

Kompakkt

musiconn.publish

RADAR4Culture

SLUBArchiv.digital

TIB AV-Portal

TIB Preservation-as-a-Service

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Contact

Dr. Martin Albrecht-Hohmaier
Dr. Desiree Mayer
Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay
Dr. Martha Stellmacher
Prof. Dr. Barbara Wiermann

Questions or suggestions? Simply contact the NFDI4Culture Helpdesk via a general request.

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