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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Ways into the collection

Move between an individual instrument and broader relationships in the corpus.

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Research interestRoute into the Navigator
An instrument’s historyRead attributed events and compare specification accounts.
Builders and workshopsFollow supported actor relationships and inspect their evidence.
A stop name or technical termExplore terminology in its original source context.
A regional questionStart with places, retaining coordinate qualifications.
A reproducible selectionRecord the dataset version, query and complete selection.

Terminology in context

Different sources can use the same word differently, or different words for related concepts. The vocabulary hub connects source terminology and controlled references while keeping their roles distinguishable.

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Sources & further reading

  1. Pipe Organ Dataset 1.6.0

    The fixed dataset release, methods and checksums.

  2. OMARO 0.1.0

    Organological reference vocabulary.

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