[MEI-L] Music and Digital Humanities: Today (23. March): Andrew Hankinson; 13. April: Mark Gotham

[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 Andrew Hankinson (RISM Digital Center):

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

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).

Zoom Link:

https://mdw-ac-at.zoom.us/j/67606221415?pwd=9VUR9zPcIe43mV2Gj5IIXyd3jgWZw1.1

Please refer to https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/music-dh for further information.

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The following lecture will be held on 13 April 2026, 17:00 (Vienna/CET).

Mark Gotham (King's College London)

"Wherever I Lay My Hat is Home?: A Complex Case Study of Crowd-Sourcing, 
Coordination, and Cross-Platform Integration for Hosting Open Humanities 
Data"

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’ (https://fourscoreandmore.org/score/).

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 (http://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/), 
the social initiative "Four Score and More" 
(https://fourscoreandmore.org/), and a nascent effort to coordinate 
Algorithms for Music Analysis and Data Science ("AMADS, 
https://github.com/music-computing/amads/).