medieval song on the web
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Presentation: Medieval Song Network September 2011 (Senate House, London)TRANSCRIPT
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Medieval Song on the Web Image, Text, Media, and Annotation
Robert Sanderson [email protected] Los Alamos National Laboratory Benjamin Albritton [email protected] Stanford University
http://lib.stanford.edu/dmm http://www.shared-canvas.org/
This presentation arises from work that is funded, in part, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Overview
• Medieval Song in the Digital Environment • Annotation of web-based resources • Motivation and light framework overview • Use-cases and demos • Possible next-steps for song projects wanting to use
digital tools and resources
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Describing Song
• How to adequately discuss a complex, compound entity? • Text or texts • Music (often multiple simultaneous voices) • Performance • Manuscript witnesses
• Mise-en-page and other issues of layout • Variants • Decorations
• The interactions and relationships between these elements
• Beyond the individual scholar
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From Analog to Digital
Transcribed Example
Analytical Reduction
Explanatory Annotation
Describing Example
Narrative Argument
Jennifer Bain, “Theorizing the Cadence in the Music of Machaut,” Journal of Music Theory 47/2 (2003), 334-35
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Using and Presenting Digital Facsimiles
Some Requirements: • Gather information from various sources • Multiple layers of commentary • Ability to provide context for examples • Include all of the data that supports the argument • Allow feedback • Include many types of media • Possibility of non-linearity • Permanence • And… ?
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Motivating Questions
Many implicit assumptions:
• What is a Manuscript? • What is its relation to a facsimile? • What is the relation of a transcription
of a facsimile to the original object?
What does this mean for digital tools?
• How do we rethink digital facsimiles in a shared, distributed, global space?
• How do we enable collaboration and encourage engagement?
Ms MurF: 10.5076/e-codices-kba-0003
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Vision
A collaborative future: • Rich landscape of interconnected
repositories of images, texts, media • Seamless user interfaces disconnected
from the repositories • Improve efficiency and usability through
open, shared development • Requirements:
• Shared data model • Shared services for facsimiles and
scholarly data
BNF f.fr 113, folio 1 recto
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Naïve Approach: Transcribe Images Directly
But how to align multiple images, pages without images, fragments… ?!
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Naïve Approach: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR
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Naïve Approach: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open
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Naïve Approach: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open Fold A and B Open
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Naïve Approach: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open Fold A and B Open f. iiiV
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Canvas Paradigm
• A Canvas is an empty space in which to build up a display • A SharedCanvas's top left and bottom right corners correspond to the equivalent corners of a folio
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Technology: Open Annotation
• http://www.openannotation.org/
• Focus on interoperable sharing of annotations • Web-centric and open, not locked down silos • Create, consume and interact in different environments
• “Annotation”
• Scholarly commentary about the manuscript • Painting resources on the SharedCanvas
• Hardest part: Define what an Annotation is! • "Aboutness" is key to distinguish from general metadata
A document that describes how one resource is about
one or more other resources, or part thereof.
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Open Annotation Model
• Annotation (a document) • Body (the ‘comment’ of the annotation) • Target (the resource the Body is ‘about’)
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OAC Annotations to Paint Images
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OAC Annotations to Paint Text
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Transcription: Morgan 804
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Transcription: Morgan 804
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Demo 1: Layering Image and Text
• http://shared-canvas.org/impl/demo1
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Musical Manuscripts: Parker CCC 008
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Demo 2: Beyond Text (Music and Media)
• http://shared-canvas.org/impl/demo2
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Demo 3: Transcribing in the Digital Environment
• Work with interoperable repositories • Use tools designed for the task:
• Transcription • Annotation
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Summary
Model: Canvas paradigm provides a coherent solution to modeling the layout of medieval manuscripts
• Annotations, and Collaboration, at the heart of the model
Implementation: • Distribution across repositories for images, text, commentary • Consistent methods to access content from many repositories • Encourages tool development by experts in the field
The SharedCanvas model implemented by distributed repositories brings the humanist's primary research objects to their desktop in a powerful, extensible and interoperable fashion
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Conclusion: Next Steps
Project-centric Approach: • Identify research goals • Encourage interoperability • Use existing tools or develop new modules in the interoperable
environment • What is specific to song study? • What is general?
• Build teams that include digital repositories, software developers, and scholars
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Thank You
Robert Sanderson [email protected] [email protected] @azaroth42 Benjamin Albritton [email protected] @bla222 Web: http://lib.stanford.edu/dmm http://www.shared-canvas.org/ Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2925 Slides: http://slidesha.re/oJnmGe Acknowledgements
DMSTech Group: http://dmstech.group.stanford.edu/ Open Annotation Collaboration: http://www.openannotation.org/