[MEI-L] Music and Digital Humanities: Today (16. March): Frauke Jürgensen; 23. March: Andrew Hankinson

[David M. Weigl]

Reminder: Distinguished Lecture Series in Music and Digital Humanities

https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh

Today's lecture in the Distinguished Lecture Series on Music and Digital 
Humanities taking place at the mdw — University of Music and Performing 
Arts Vienna will be given by Frauke Jürgensen (mdw):

"Reconstructing Renaissance Improvisation Pedagogy using Symbolic Music 
Analysis Tools and Practice-Informed Analysis"

The lecture will start at 17:00 (Vienna/CET). As always, it will be 
streamed via Zoom, and both in-person and remote participation is free.
Note that Vienna is still in the CET timezone (no switch to DST yet).

Please refer to https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh for instructions on 
joining us!

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The following lecture will be held on 23 March 2026, 17:00 (Vienna/CET).

Andrew Hankinson (RISM Digital Center): "Tool or Toy? The tension 
between infrastructure and innovation"

This lecture will explore the tension in Digital Humanities between 
building resources that are long-lasting and widely used, and the need 
(and desire) to be constantly pushing the envelope with new research 
programmes, new technology, and new methodologies. With the former, the 
risk is stagnation as social inertia forces you to maintain something 
that carries the weight of entire disciplines; with the latter, the risk 
is half-baked, undocumented, and complex tools that promise new insights 
but are unusable by all but a select few and left unmaintained as you 
move on to new things.

In this talk, I will explore what it means to be intentional about what 
you build, from the perspective of several real-world case studies: 
running large websites such as the Digital Image Archive of Medieval 
Music (DIAMM) and RISM Online, and maintaining software, such as Diva.js 
and libmei, that was never imagined would be in use decades later. I 
will discuss what you need to know before you start, and what you can do 
when a project needs to end.

Andrew Hankinson is a software developer with the RISM Digital Center in 
Bern, Switzerland. He has been the technical lead on a number of widely 
used systems and services, including Digital Bodleian at the University 
of Oxford, the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), and, 
most recently, RISM Online. He is also part of several large research 
projects, including LinkedMusic, the Single Interface for Music Score 
Searching and Analysis (SIMSSA), and Digital Analysis of Chant 
Transmission (DACT).