facsimiles of text and music from distributed resources
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Presented at Indiana University, Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Facsimiles of Text and MusicFrom Distributed Resources
Benjamin [email protected]
Scholarly Editions and the Digital Age: Text and Music31 August 2012, Bloomington, IN
Overview
• Brief context of current medieval manuscript interoperability work
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation• Stanford and partners• What do we mean by “interoperability”?
The Problem
• Medieval projects as “curated and comprehensive” efforts
• Technical and social silos• Expensive to maintain• Difficult to extend
The Goal
• Toward a “commons” of distributed resources• Aggregating information and extensibility as
an alternate to “curated and comprehensive”• Allow people to do cool new stuff with our
stuff (without losing our relevance)
Text Repositories
• Long history• Deep inventory• Domain-specific (often)• Some images• Static Interface• …
Image Repositories• A “standard model”• Lots of images• Descriptive metadata• Silo interfaces• Built-in tools• No way to access
outside “stuff” for comparison
• Mediates use• Expensive to maintain
Repository to Repository• One-off sharing• Human-brokered• But:• Expense• Not scalable• What if:• CHMTL wants
images for all MSS of its texts?
• Parker wants texts for all its music theory?
• BNF wants… ?
Parker: CCCC 410 – De speculatione musice
CHMTL: 1970, Corpus scriptorum text of De speculatione musice
But what about…• Other resources
“about” an object or text
• … stored and served in other places
• … that you might not know about
• How to build extensible facsimiles?
“Interoperability”• Step 1: Expose resources to
shared tools• Step 2: Enhance resources• Match text to image• Match image to text
• Exposure is low cost• Shared tools let other people
make your stuff better• Specialists build the domain-
specific tools
Step 3: Enhance existing data
Step 4: CHMTL text + Parker image
Digital Facsimiles from Distributed Resources
• Parker image served from Stanford• Text provided by CHMTL• Linkage produced in T-PEN• Data for text re-stored at Los Alamos National
Lab• Re-presented in a new environment that also
allows presentation of even more annotations and links
Aggregating distributed resources
Transcribing from Digital Surrogates
La Terre de Secille
Naïve Approach: Attach Transcription to ImageOne problem example: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR
Naïve Approach: Attach Transcription to ImageOne problem example: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open
Naïve Approach: Attach Transcription to ImageOne problem example: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open Fold A and B Open
Naïve Approach: Attach Transcription to ImageOne problem example: Multiple Representations
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open Fold A and B Open f. iiiV
The Shared Canvas
• Represents a real world thing we want to “talk” about
• Has a unique name• http://dms-data.stanford.edu/Parker/CCC026/canvas-12
Facsimiles are “about” a real thing
Parker Image re-served in SharedCanvas viewer
Re-presented with text in side-by-side view…
… or overlaid
The Distributed Facsimile
Examples of other resources attached to the facsimile:
• Detail images overlaid
Examples of other resources attached to the facsimile:
• Audio performances of notated music
• Overlaid text transcription
• User-generated comments (public and private)
• Also:• Data sets• Mark-up• Base image
choices
Conclusion
• Distributed resources exist independently of the aggregation – could be re-presented in any UI
• In short:– Expose repository and project data via API and
common data models– Leads to:
• Greater use of repository resources• Sustainability• Enhanced repository data• Cool new uses of the data we’ve already produced
Thank You• More Info:
– Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University Libraries• [email protected]
– CHMTL & Dr. Giuliano Di Bacco, Indiana University• http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/
– SharedCanvas• Author and architect: Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Lab
• Description and implementations:– www.shared-canvas.org
– T-PEN• PI: James Ginther (coming up next), Saint Louis University• Try it!
– http://t-pen.org/TPEN
– Slides (within a week)• http://www.stanford.edu/group/dmstech/