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Joseph Haydn Werke Metadata: MEI Way
- Author(s):
- Joshua Neumann
- Editor(s):
- Ailynn Ang, Jennifer Bain, David M. Weigl (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- Music Encoding Initiative
- Subject(s):
- Digital humanities, Music
- Item Type:
- Conference poster
- Conf. Title:
- Music Encoding Conference 2022
- Conf. Org.:
- Dalhousie University
- Conf. Loc.:
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Conf. Date:
- May 19-22, 2022
- Tag(s):
- MEI Conversion, metadata, Music encoding
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/7hsv-ha95
- Abstract:
- The work of the Joseph Haydn Institute has been well-known in eighteenth-century studies and beyond since publishing the first four volumes of the Joseph Haydn Werke in 1958. As with any Gesamtausgabe undertaking, sources occupy a central role, and with them come massive amounts of data. Naturally, compilation and organization of the metadata occurred over the life of this project, with digitization only a comparatively recent focus. Multiple factors led to the development of an idiomatic schema. Inasmuch as this system served immediate needs and created a foundation for content findability, it created limitations in accessibility, interoperability, and reusability—all desirable or essential qualities for the online Joseph Haydn Portal. It creates a distinct set of challenges for creating a digital Werkverzeichnis within the portal, the most pressing of which is transforming data into a standardized format enabled for the necessary qualities. This poster provides an overview of this process using file samples, concordances for terms and structure, and presents the challenges involved in a project of this size, and the realities of planning the project life cycle.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 months ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
mec22_133-138_neumann.pdf