Music Encoding and Linked Data A flexible approach to sharing musical information online

David Lewis, AREM, December 2022 University of Oxford eResearch Centre - david.lewis@oerc.ox.ac.uk

Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London - d.lewis@gold.ac.uk Music is complex Musical activities are multi-modal Musical activities are individual So what can we share? Climb! Maria Kallionpää

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idR75oEdQrQ

Delius string quartet masterclass Music Encoding and Linked Data (MELD) We assume MELD apps will be very speci c

• Some are live and create data dynamically

• Some have rich data structures

• Some use external data sources

• Many audiences…

• We can't and shouldn't prescribe required data structures or functionality fi

Music Encoding and Linked Data (MELD) What can we share between apps?

• Linked Data is always present. 

• Triples are gathered from the Web

• The results are used to build the app

• Functionality is available for visualisation, interaction and co-ordination

• Often there is a lot of overlap of data model 

• (but also of personnel) Asking the Forbidden Question: A digital companion to a musicological essay Hearing Wagner Wagner's Ring in Birmingham

• Mariinsky Opera Company under Valery Gergiev

• 4 nights at the Birmingham Hippodrome

• Musicologists and Music psychologists:

• Create musicological ‘ground truth'

• Build rich hyperstructure about a complex live event

• Hearing Wagner public engagement event 2 weeks later Score annotations on tablet

• Tablet with vocal score loaded

• Stylus-based annotations

• Each stroke is time-stamped and uploaded to a a server Free form annotation

• Digital pen and dot paper

• Also records with a time stamp

• The pen records audio More data!

• 1,316 digital images

• 1300 page turn timestamps

• Physiological data from 10 audience members (GSR & Pulse)

• 100,000 tablet strokes

• 104 pages of writing

• 15 hours of footage Getting complex quickly MELD

• MELD can't make complex information needs simple

• MELD doesn't provide general-purpose applications for music

• MELD can help build applications when you know what they're for

• MELD is under active development, open source and still research code meld.web.ox.ac.uk Music Encoding and Linked Data A flexible approach to sharing musical information online Thank you

David Lewis, AREM, December 2022 University of Oxford eResearch Centre - david.lewis@oerc.ox.ac.uk

Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London - d.lewis@gold.ac.uk