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Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group Business Meeting and Keynote
Daniel DiCenso
College of the Holy Cross
Catherine Saucier Arizona State University
Organized by the AMS Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group
This is the business meeting for the Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group. The study group will also feature a keynote speaker, Dr. Debra Lacoste, Dalhousie University, Project Manager and Principal Researcher of CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant. Dr. Lacoste will speak on "Harmonizing Content in the Cantus Database and DIAMM.”
Abstract for the speaker:
Interoperability among digital projects is a key factor in sustainability for both the projects and the data that they hold. In collaboration with Julia Craig-McFeely of DIAMM (Univ. of Oxford), we will demonstrate how the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) and the Cantus Database will increase interoperability in the backend standardization of our metadata schema, using manuscript Utrecht 406 as a test case. The Cantus Database inventory for Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Ms. 406 (shelfmark 3 J 7), (https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/source/123641), contains information for all the chants in the source, with links to images on the Utrecht University site. Since there are a few instances in this manuscript of simple polyphony, DIAMM also holds an instance of this source with the polyphonic items indicated under ‘contents’: https://www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/1355/#/.
For sources that appear on both sites, such as Utrecht 406, the user experience will be improved if the manuscript description landing pages present shared data in similar formats (such as RISM sigla, library names, provenance information, etc.). The developers working on these sites will have an easier time understanding the potential crossovers that might connect the sites more closely together in the future if the internal field names and metadata structures were comparable. These legacy sites each have a long history, with multiple software migrations and expansions of the data that they now contain. An alignment of the online offerings for DIAMM and the Cantus Database will not only bolster the backend standardization and software development for both projects, but it will streamline searches, connect data (especially for users who do not already know what they are looking for), reduce occurrences of different information formats which can be confusing for students and non-specialists, as well as highlight each database’s purpose and holdings with integrated links.
