Music and Digital Humanities

Wherever I Lay My Hat is Home?: A Complex Case Study of Crowd-Sourcing, Coordination, and Cross-Platform Integration for Hosting Open Humanities Data with Mark Gotham (King’s College London)

The Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities at mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites leading international experts in diverse aspects of DH to share their perspectives with our students, faculty, and community. The series is aimed at a broad, non-technical audience. It provides a varied overview of the history and current state of DH as it applies to music, its philosophical underpinnings and societal implications, and is expected to yield insights into relevant methodologies, technologies, infrastructures, and applications working with humanities datasets.

Topics include data management and computational analysis for digital musicology, digital editions, DH and artificial intelligence, machine learning and music information retrieval, as well as pedagogy, science communication, and citizen science. The series is convened by Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl, digital musicology researchers at the mdw’s Department for Music Acoustics - Wiener Klangstil, and organized in collaboration with the mdw’s Department of Musicology and Performance Studies.

Lectures will be presented in English.

This project is funded by CLARIAH-AT with support from the BMFWF.

Programm

It is well known that creating high quality datasets can be a complex business; what’s less often recognised is how difficult it is "simply" to disseminate that data meaningfully, particularly where the goal is to serve different use cases.

This talk will focus on our experience with the -OpenScore- initiative which creates digital encodings of musical scores under the CC0 licence for all use cases (musical, academic, and more). These corpora have traced a complex journey from crowd-sourcing to a multi-platform offering as they seek to serve those multiple use cases as effectively and openly as possible. This talk will tell the full story of how platform choice interacts with those stakeholders and use cases, culminating in the announcement of a new series of bespoke websites at - Four Score and More -.

I focus on this specific story both for depth and detail, and with the conviction that this case study has wider significance for other projects involved in the meaningful development of open cultural data. While focussing on our experiences with OpenScore, I will also draw on some other major, long-term and related projects including the Open Music Theory textbook, the social initiative Four Score and More , and a nascent effort to coordinate Algorithms for Music Analysis and Data Science ( AMADS ).

Further infos can be found here.

Zeit & Ort
13. Apr. 2026, 17:00
Bankettsaal
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Wien

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13. Apr. 2026, 17:00
27. Apr. 2026, 17:00
04. Mai. 2026, 17:00
11. Mai. 2026, 17:00
18. Mai. 2026, 17:00
01. Jun. 2026, 17:00
08. Jun. 2026, 17:00
22. Jun. 2026, 17:00
29. Jun. 2026, 17:00

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Kontakt
David M. Weigl
weigl [a] mdw[.]ac[.]at

Chanda VanderHart
vanderhart [a] mdw[.]ac[.]at

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Institut für musikalische Akustik - Wiener Klangstil (IWK)

Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Interpretationsforschung

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