Lewis, David. 2023. 'Practicalities of sharing humanities data: Studying arrangements of nineteenth-century music'. In: Musikwissenschaft JGU Mainz: Gastvortrag (invited lecture). JGU Mainz, Germany 28 April 2023. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Sharing digital research relies on assumptions - it involves more than giving access to data files. Just as the value of a monograph is only available to a reader who understands its language and terminology, our data is only accessible if it builds on shared meaning. We commonly achieve this in one of three ways: we can use agreed file formats (preferably based on open standards); we can publish Linked Data using web-ontologies (pre-agreed and documented sets of terms) or we can define and document our own terms and hope that others will be interested enough in our work to adopt them.
In my discussion, I will show how all three of those strategies have been used for studying a range of musical arrangements as part of the Beethoven in the House project. I will talk through the process of data modelling that informed our choices and how we developed the new concepts that we felt were missing from existing standards. Finally, I will illustrate how this work is enabling other projects to share their data, building on our modelling and our ontology.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Computing
Dates:	Date Event 28 April 2023 Completed
Event Location:	JGU Mainz, Germany
Date range:	28 April 2023
Item ID:	33789
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2023 12:12
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2023 12:12
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33789

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