This paper presents the recent implementation of encoded music notation in two open access platforms of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) devoted to traditional music and polyphony, respectively: Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC (FMT)1 and Books of Hispanic Polyphony IMF-CSIC (BHP)2. Even though, at first, both repertories seem…[Read more]

This panel submission for the 2021 Music Encoding Conference brings together five short papers that focus on the making of computer-readable encodings of polyphony in the notational style – mensural notation – in which it was originally copied. Mensural notation was used in the medieval West to encode polyphony from the late thirteenth to six…[Read more]

Drawing on collaborative research at The National Archives, including through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s programme Towards a National Collection, this talk explores computational archival science, artificial intelligence, citizen involvement, and post-custodial approaches to challenge doom-laden technological determinism, and h…[Read more]

Musicology is a small discipline within the wide spectrum of human knowledge, yet it is already divided into various branches […]. Although they share their object of investigation – “the art of music as a physical, psychological, aesthetic, and cultural phenomenon” –, these branches very often ignore one another. Research in musicology is mostly…[Read more]

Foreword of the Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021.

Conference proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2021 with Foreword by Stefan Münnich and David Rizo.

Static web technologies offer an exciting opportunity for DH instructors to incorporate transferable digital literacy skills into their classrooms, while producing low-cost, low-maintenance web projects that are sustainable even for institutions with limited resources. Because static websites are composed of flat HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files,…[Read more]

Static web technologies offer an exciting opportunity for DH instructors to incorporate transferable digital literacy skills into their classrooms, while producing low-cost, low-maintenance web projects that are sustainable even for institutions with limited resources. Because static websites are composed of flat HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files,…[Read more]

Essay on the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her impact upon literature. This essay celebrates her global reach from within societal spheres of gender. “Emily Dickinson transformed the genre of poetry from the academic salon styled idealism to the personal poignant voice of reality from the poet’s point of view.”

PowerPoint Slides for the “Industry, Postcolony, and the Immersive Arts of Environmental Storytelling” talk delivered during the Global DH Symposium on March 24, 2022.

This talk addresses the challenges of doing environmental and digital humanities (D&EH) work in the space of “high Nordic” colonialism and extractivism in Norway (Lars Kiel Bertelsen, qtd. in Arke, Ethno-Aesthetics 9). Trondheim, a burgeoning silicon fjord smart city in the throes of overdevelopment and (post)colonial conflict, and NTNU, Nor…[Read more]

In Lebanon faculty, staff, and students across university campuses experienced multiple crises, of which COVID-19 was ironically the least to worry about. Ironically because the latter not only pungently exposed the infrastructural vulnerabilities in the health system on a colossal level and extenuated the digital divide in a developing society…[Read more]

This paper describes the function and genesis of IRSAAL-Urdu, a novel application of Google Sheets for the analysis of Urdu discourse online. This tool prioritizes openness, ease of use, and extensibility in its low technical bar for entry, robust documentation, and easily customized components. In particular, the paper details the postcolonial DH…[Read more]

This paper describes the function and genesis of IRSAAL-Urdu, a novel application of Google Sheets for the analysis of Urdu discourse online. This tool prioritizes openness, ease of use, and extensibility in its low technical bar for entry, robust documentation, and easily customized components. In particular, the paper details the postcolonial DH…[Read more]

Among the most biased aspects of history is the concept of memory. What do we remember? How do we remember? When do we forget? Should we forget? Remembering where we’ve come from, and complicating the past, is essential in continuing our journey through this world but the politics of commemoration often sidetracks our identity and attempts to i…[Read more]

Over approximately the last decade, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), has become a recognized international community-driven effort that has developed and maintains the MEI schema, standards, and shared documentation. The potential of machine-readable music data that can be reused, rendered, shared, or analyzed using a computer, is quite…[Read more]

Like many communities around the world, my own neighborhood was filled with murals and street art crafted by various artists, creators, and makers on brick and plywood. While made of various materials with different styles, these pieces of community-generated art all illustrate and amplify the important message that Black Lives Matter. In using…[Read more]

This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

Materials created for a Music Encoding Pedagogy Workshop facilitated at the American Musicological Society virtual conference on November 7, 2020. Workshop presents MEI use cases and approaches; pedagogical approaches; an MEI workflow; and options to publish MEI.