MODAVISA RESEARCH PROJECT
THE WHOLE PROJECT, AT A GLANCE

Find your thread.

ESC
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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Navigator

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Follow the connections

Explore organological data without losing the sources behind it.

2 min read · September 2026
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The Navigator is the public research interface to MODAVIS. It brings instrument records, specifications, documented events, people, places and terminology into connected views. The deployed dataset and the application have independent version numbers.

Open MODAVIS NavigatorExplore instruments, sources and their relationships.

A useful first visit

  • Find an instrument or begin with a place or builder.
  • Read the source accounts attached to the record.
  • Compare specifications with attention to their dates and attribution.
  • Follow a person, term or documented event into related records.
  • Retain the dataset version and source references for your research notes.

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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