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ISVR Seminar 16 March 2010. MusicSpace: Orchestrating Musicological Metadata. http://musicspace.mspace.fm. Promotional Video. British Library Music Collections. British Library Sound Archive. Cecilia. Copac. RISM UK & Ireland. Grove Music Online (OUP). Naxos Music Library. RILM.
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ISVR Seminar16 March 2010 MusicSpace: Orchestrating Musicological Metadata http://musicspace.mspace.fm
Effectively intractable questions • Which scribes have created manuscripts of a composer’s works, and which other composers’ works have they inscribed? • Which poets have had their poems set to music by Schubert, which of these musical settings were only published posthumously, and where can I find recordings of them? • Which electroacoustic works were published within five years of their premier?
Initial testing and evaluation took place during April-May 2009 • Integration: ‘All the information showed up very quickly, and it was easy to find material. It was really good to have different kinds of material in the same place.’ • Changing search paradigm: ‘I would recommend musicSpace for its ability to manipulate queries in order to get results that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to get [without starting over].’ • Granularity: ‘I used musicSpace to explore how many operas have a character named Alceste. This information simply isn’t get-at-able using other search interfaces – you’d have to sort through the information by hand.’
Future Deployment? • Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)