MODAVISA RESEARCH PROJECT
THE WHOLE PROJECT, AT A GLANCE

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10 notebooks
01 / Research

Virtual Acoustic Objects

An instrument is more than its shape. Bring its sound, structure and evidence together.

7 pages
02 / Research

Research & questions

How can digital representations keep musical heritage open to critical inquiry?

7 pages
03 / Research

Recording & fieldwork

From an instrument in a room to an attributable, reusable recording.

4 pages
04 / Resources

Navigator

An evidence-led workspace for exploring instruments, people, places and histories.

3 pages
05 / Resources

Pipe Organ Dataset

A versioned corpus of organological records, connected to their sources.

4 pages
06 / Resources

Tools & experiences

The tools, standards and research collections of MODAVIS, with their responsibilities and release status.

8 pages
07 / Foundations

Ontologies

A shared language for instruments, evidence, historical states and digital representations.

6 pages
08 / Foundations

Standards & citation

Stable identities, explicit versions and inspectable content.

5 pages
09 / Foundations

About the project

Musical instruments, digital scholarship and the possibilities of open research.

3 pages
10 / Foundations

Journal & milestones

A dated route through the project’s published standards, data and research.

2 pages
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NOTEBOOK 05

Pipe Organ Dataset

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A collection with a memory

POD brings organ records together while preserving attribution, disagreement and historical context.

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The MODAVIS Pipe Organ Dataset (POD) connects instrument identities with source accounts, people, places, specifications and documented events. Its release structure provides a fixed basis for reuse and comparison.

POD 1.6.0Published corpus
Canonical organs215,769
Actors11,778
Places203,831
Source collections25
Virtual instruments897

These are release-specific corpus counts, not a census of all surviving instruments. Coverage depends on the contributing collections, their documentation and the reconciliation work embodied in this release.

Pipe Organ Dataset 1.6.0The fixed dataset release, methods and checksums.
Open MODAVIS NavigatorExplore instruments, sources and their relationships.
Related software and research collectionsBrowse the complete MODAVIS ecosystem.

Sources & further reading

  1. Pipe Organ Dataset 1.6.0

    The fixed dataset release, methods and checksums.

  2. About the doctoral research

    Musikinstrumente im virtuellen Raum, submitted 11 September 2026.

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