POD brings organ records together while preserving attribution, disagreement and historical context.
2 min read · September 2026
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 1.6.0
Published corpus
Canonical organs
215,769
Actors
11,778
Places
203,831
Source collections
25
Virtual instruments
897
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.