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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Recording & fieldwork

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Capture, review, preserve

Keep the original recording available as analysis and playback regions evolve.

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StageRecord to retain
PlanInstrument, specification, session objectives and capture roadmap.
CaptureOriginal audio, channel identities, equipment and session observations.
ReviewAccepted or rejected takes and the reasons for those decisions.
DeriveTime regions, loop decisions, transformations and their parameters.
ExportVersioned resources, rights, provenance and checked file identities.

Regions are not replacement recordings

A sustained sample or a loop can be defined as a region of an original take. Keeping that relation allows another researcher to inspect the surrounding signal and revisit an editing decision.

Preservation and playback serve different needs

A convenient playback package may contain only the assets needed by one application. A preservation release must also retain the information required to understand the selection and its provenance. VAO separates semantic release identity from the choice of carrier.

VAO carrier structure

Sources & further reading

  1. OrgRec 0.3.2

    The recording application’s release record.

  2. VAO Standard 0.5.0

    The versioned specification and reference tools.

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