Raffaele Viglianti is a Research Programmer working on the MITH development team. He came to MITH from the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London (KCL), where he was most recently a Post-graduate Research Assistant. At King’s, he contributed to several major digitization and text encoding projects while also completing a PhD in Digital Musicology. Raffaele’s work revolves around digital editions and textual scholarship. He is currently an elected member of the Text Encoding Initiative technical council and an advisor for the Music Encoding Initiative, which produces guidelines for the digital representation of music notation with a focus on scholarly requirements. As a researcher, Raffaele specialises in editions of music scores, contributing to the ongoing change to scholarly editorial theory and practice in the digital medium. His work also focuses on the shaping of music performance practice by the digital consumption of music scores, or the performance of a music score from a digital device. Address: 0301 Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
W artykule przedstawiono wstępne refleksje autorów dotyczące tego, czy minimalne przetwarzanie ja... more W artykule przedstawiono wstępne refleksje autorów dotyczące tego, czy minimalne przetwarzanie jako praktyka może wykraczać poza „przetwarzanie dokonywane przy pewnych ograniczeniach technologicznych” i służyć jako wspólna płaszczyzna między rozwijającymi się w odmiennym tempie badaniami z zakresu humanistyki cyfrowej na Globalnej Północy i na Globalnym Południu. Opisujemy to zagadnienie, przywołując nasze doświadczenie w tworzeniu i prowadzeniu kursu dla studentów zarówno z Uniwersytetu w Marylandzie, College Park w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak i Universidad del Salvador w Buenos Aires w Argentynie. Kurs został przeprowadzony po raz pierwszy we wrześniu–listopadzie 2020 roku. Podczas jego trwania starano się wprowadzić studentów w tajniki cyfrowego publikowania i naukowego analizowania tekstów, wykorzystując do tego techniki minimalnego przetwarzania rozumianego jako wspólny zestaw wartości dotyczący stosowania otwartych technologii, posiadania danych i kodu, zmniejszenia infrastrukt...
The Enhancing Music Notation Addressability project seeks a Level II DH Startup Grant for develop... more The Enhancing Music Notation Addressability project seeks a Level II DH Startup Grant for developing software to address and extract music notation expressed in the Music Encoding Initiative format. Because addressing music notation segments is central to musicological discourse, we seek to answer such questions as (1) how can one virtually 'circle' music notation? and (2) how can a machine interpret this 'circling' to retrieve music notation? We intend to evaluate our approach by transforming into nanopublications the analytical music annotations already produced by students and scholars as part of the Du Chemin: Lost Voices project, which is reconstructing songs from 16th c. France. Nanopublication is providing the scientific community with a way of outlining attribution and quality of even small contributions to facilitate citation and promote massive collaborative scholarship. We seek to extend its benefits to humanities scholarship.
This presentation introduced the pedagogy behind the 2020 course Digital Publishing with Minimal ... more This presentation introduced the pedagogy behind the 2020 course Digital Publishing with Minimal Computing, designed by researchers from the University of Maryland (United States) and CONICET (Argentina) to teach minimal computing approaches to North and South American students. The class is part of the Global Classroom Initiative at the University of Maryland (UMD) with students from both UMD and from Universidad del Salvador (USAL) in Buenos Aires. The course introduces students to digital publishing and textual scholarship, with minimal computing presented as a shared set of values: use of open technologies, ownership of data and code, reduction in computing infrastructure and, consequently, environmental impact. Minimal computing can be a solution for the development of projects in the Global South, where access to infrastructure such as web hosting or even reliable and affordable Internet access is almost non-existent for humanities students and faculty. Our combined experience...
Presentación "Cómo empezar un proyecto de Humanidades Digitales" en el marco del progra... more Presentación "Cómo empezar un proyecto de Humanidades Digitales" en el marco del programa Global Classrooms de Universidad de Maryland (EE.UU.), Universidad de El Salvador (Argentina) y CONICET (Argentina).
The Early Modern Songscapes (EMS) project represents a development partnership between the Univer... more The Early Modern Songscapes (EMS) project represents a development partnership between the University of Toronto Scarborough's Digital Scholarship Unit (DSU), the University of Maryland, and the University of South Carolina. Developers, librarians and faculty from both institutions have collaborated on an intermedia online platform designed to support the scholarly investigation of early modern English song. The first iteration of the platform, launched at the Early modern Songscapes Conference, held February 8-9, 2019 at the University of Toronto's Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, serves Fedora-held Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) documents through a JavaScript viewer capable of being embedded within the Islandora digital asset management framework. The viewer presents versions of a song's musical notation and textual underlay followed by the entire song text. This article reviews the status of this technology, and the process of developing an XML framework for TEI and MEI editions that would serve the requirements of all stakeholder technologies. Beyond the applicability of this technology in other digital scholarship contexts, the approach may serve others seeking methods for integrating technologies into Islandora or working across institutional development environments.
Building upon recent developments in digital music scholarship, Citations: The Renaissance Imitat... more Building upon recent developments in digital music scholarship, Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass investigates similarity and borrowing in music on a massive but detailed scale, using digital tools that only a few years ago were beyond our grasp. Our work focuses on the craft of musical counterpoint, and how musicians of the sixteenth century transformed pre-existing pieces to make intricate cyclic compositions from familiar sounds. The CRIM team, an accomplished group of scholars and data scientists active in Europe, North America, and Australia, will assemble a diverse collaborative network of music scholars and students at colleges, music schools and university graduate programs, extending the reach of digital scholarship to new users, and building new communities.
Developing the Frankenstein Variorum Project has necessitated a reconciliation of extremely diver... more Developing the Frankenstein Variorum Project has necessitated a reconciliation of extremely divergent markup ecosystems supporting multiple editions of a single novel. The reconciliation process involves breaking or flattening the original hierarchies to prioritize units of low-level lateral intersection, points shared in common to construct “bridge” or intermediary formats for processing with automated collation via CollateX. The output from the automated collation process also serves as an intermediary format that we transform into a TEI form of stand-off parallel segmentation, in which stand-off pointing mechanisms operate like a switchboard for connecting the individual editions which can remain (for the most part) undisturbed or unmarked from the collation process. The TEI “stand-off bridge” negotiates the distinct markup ecosystems in ways that can break the “silo” effect of isolating specially encoded editions. Far from an ephemeral support structure, the stand-off bridge uph...
TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative, was founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding machine... more TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative, was founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding machine-readable texts of interest to the humanities and social sciences. The TEI is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs several mailing lists, holds an annual conference, and maintains an eponymous technical standard, an online journal, a wiki, a GitHub repository, and a toolchain. The TEI Guidelines, which collectively define an XML format, are the defining output of the community of practice. The format differs from other well-known open formats for text (such as HTML and OpenDocument) in that it’s main mission is for encoding “extant” texts such that they are amenable to scholarly processing. After a brief introduction to the TEI, we will discuss the mechanisms built in to the TEI for customization.
CETEIcean is a Javascript library designed to render TEI XML in a modern web browser. It does not... more CETEIcean is a Javascript library designed to render TEI XML in a modern web browser. It does not rely on XSLT or XQuery transformations of the source and is ideal for a distributed, web-based document preparation workflow.
W artykule przedstawiono wstępne refleksje autorów dotyczące tego, czy minimalne przetwarzanie ja... more W artykule przedstawiono wstępne refleksje autorów dotyczące tego, czy minimalne przetwarzanie jako praktyka może wykraczać poza „przetwarzanie dokonywane przy pewnych ograniczeniach technologicznych” i służyć jako wspólna płaszczyzna między rozwijającymi się w odmiennym tempie badaniami z zakresu humanistyki cyfrowej na Globalnej Północy i na Globalnym Południu. Opisujemy to zagadnienie, przywołując nasze doświadczenie w tworzeniu i prowadzeniu kursu dla studentów zarówno z Uniwersytetu w Marylandzie, College Park w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak i Universidad del Salvador w Buenos Aires w Argentynie. Kurs został przeprowadzony po raz pierwszy we wrześniu–listopadzie 2020 roku. Podczas jego trwania starano się wprowadzić studentów w tajniki cyfrowego publikowania i naukowego analizowania tekstów, wykorzystując do tego techniki minimalnego przetwarzania rozumianego jako wspólny zestaw wartości dotyczący stosowania otwartych technologii, posiadania danych i kodu, zmniejszenia infrastrukt...
The Enhancing Music Notation Addressability project seeks a Level II DH Startup Grant for develop... more The Enhancing Music Notation Addressability project seeks a Level II DH Startup Grant for developing software to address and extract music notation expressed in the Music Encoding Initiative format. Because addressing music notation segments is central to musicological discourse, we seek to answer such questions as (1) how can one virtually 'circle' music notation? and (2) how can a machine interpret this 'circling' to retrieve music notation? We intend to evaluate our approach by transforming into nanopublications the analytical music annotations already produced by students and scholars as part of the Du Chemin: Lost Voices project, which is reconstructing songs from 16th c. France. Nanopublication is providing the scientific community with a way of outlining attribution and quality of even small contributions to facilitate citation and promote massive collaborative scholarship. We seek to extend its benefits to humanities scholarship.
This presentation introduced the pedagogy behind the 2020 course Digital Publishing with Minimal ... more This presentation introduced the pedagogy behind the 2020 course Digital Publishing with Minimal Computing, designed by researchers from the University of Maryland (United States) and CONICET (Argentina) to teach minimal computing approaches to North and South American students. The class is part of the Global Classroom Initiative at the University of Maryland (UMD) with students from both UMD and from Universidad del Salvador (USAL) in Buenos Aires. The course introduces students to digital publishing and textual scholarship, with minimal computing presented as a shared set of values: use of open technologies, ownership of data and code, reduction in computing infrastructure and, consequently, environmental impact. Minimal computing can be a solution for the development of projects in the Global South, where access to infrastructure such as web hosting or even reliable and affordable Internet access is almost non-existent for humanities students and faculty. Our combined experience...
Presentación "Cómo empezar un proyecto de Humanidades Digitales" en el marco del progra... more Presentación "Cómo empezar un proyecto de Humanidades Digitales" en el marco del programa Global Classrooms de Universidad de Maryland (EE.UU.), Universidad de El Salvador (Argentina) y CONICET (Argentina).
The Early Modern Songscapes (EMS) project represents a development partnership between the Univer... more The Early Modern Songscapes (EMS) project represents a development partnership between the University of Toronto Scarborough's Digital Scholarship Unit (DSU), the University of Maryland, and the University of South Carolina. Developers, librarians and faculty from both institutions have collaborated on an intermedia online platform designed to support the scholarly investigation of early modern English song. The first iteration of the platform, launched at the Early modern Songscapes Conference, held February 8-9, 2019 at the University of Toronto's Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, serves Fedora-held Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) documents through a JavaScript viewer capable of being embedded within the Islandora digital asset management framework. The viewer presents versions of a song's musical notation and textual underlay followed by the entire song text. This article reviews the status of this technology, and the process of developing an XML framework for TEI and MEI editions that would serve the requirements of all stakeholder technologies. Beyond the applicability of this technology in other digital scholarship contexts, the approach may serve others seeking methods for integrating technologies into Islandora or working across institutional development environments.
Building upon recent developments in digital music scholarship, Citations: The Renaissance Imitat... more Building upon recent developments in digital music scholarship, Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass investigates similarity and borrowing in music on a massive but detailed scale, using digital tools that only a few years ago were beyond our grasp. Our work focuses on the craft of musical counterpoint, and how musicians of the sixteenth century transformed pre-existing pieces to make intricate cyclic compositions from familiar sounds. The CRIM team, an accomplished group of scholars and data scientists active in Europe, North America, and Australia, will assemble a diverse collaborative network of music scholars and students at colleges, music schools and university graduate programs, extending the reach of digital scholarship to new users, and building new communities.
Developing the Frankenstein Variorum Project has necessitated a reconciliation of extremely diver... more Developing the Frankenstein Variorum Project has necessitated a reconciliation of extremely divergent markup ecosystems supporting multiple editions of a single novel. The reconciliation process involves breaking or flattening the original hierarchies to prioritize units of low-level lateral intersection, points shared in common to construct “bridge” or intermediary formats for processing with automated collation via CollateX. The output from the automated collation process also serves as an intermediary format that we transform into a TEI form of stand-off parallel segmentation, in which stand-off pointing mechanisms operate like a switchboard for connecting the individual editions which can remain (for the most part) undisturbed or unmarked from the collation process. The TEI “stand-off bridge” negotiates the distinct markup ecosystems in ways that can break the “silo” effect of isolating specially encoded editions. Far from an ephemeral support structure, the stand-off bridge uph...
TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative, was founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding machine... more TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative, was founded in 1987 to develop guidelines for encoding machine-readable texts of interest to the humanities and social sciences. The TEI is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs several mailing lists, holds an annual conference, and maintains an eponymous technical standard, an online journal, a wiki, a GitHub repository, and a toolchain. The TEI Guidelines, which collectively define an XML format, are the defining output of the community of practice. The format differs from other well-known open formats for text (such as HTML and OpenDocument) in that it’s main mission is for encoding “extant” texts such that they are amenable to scholarly processing. After a brief introduction to the TEI, we will discuss the mechanisms built in to the TEI for customization.
CETEIcean is a Javascript library designed to render TEI XML in a modern web browser. It does not... more CETEIcean is a Javascript library designed to render TEI XML in a modern web browser. It does not rely on XSLT or XQuery transformations of the source and is ideal for a distributed, web-based document preparation workflow.
Review of "Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals, and Realities", Eds. Tim Crawford... more Review of "Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals, and Realities", Eds. Tim Crawford and Lorna Gibson, Ashgate, 2009
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