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As part of the Transforming Musicology project, we have tried to examine not just the academic and the technological aspects of musicological research, but also the way in which such work is carried out. This blog outlines what some of our observations.

The Transforming Musicology project carried out a preliminary investigation of the viability of supercomputing for the various tools being used within the project. This blog post summarises what we found.

Report on our second Digital Musicology workshop at the week-long Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

Expanding our exploration of how to represent tablature notation from looking at just historical lute music to include popular music for the guitar family is important. Richard looks at some of the changes we're making to support more tablature notations.

Report on an event organised with the Academic Book of the Future project, looking at the future of scholarly publishing in music.

As part of the celebrations of the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace's birth, we explored mathematics, computation, and music through a performance of Ada sketches, a short operatic work by Emily Howard.

Report of a tutorial at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference (ISMIR)

Report of a public workshop and hackathon run by the project, including public data that we work with and some specially provided for the day by RILM.

Analysing electronic music for a Transforming Musicology miniproject.

Installing audioDB, a multi-dimensional feature database search tool designed for audio.

Similarity is an important concept in our project and much other research, but do we really know what it is? Is it even a single thing?

Understanding conductus: Gregorio writes about the miniproject searching the Web for texts of this medieval genre.

Was thrash metal started in 1918? Justin discusses the reliability of online data.

The Transforming Musicology team was at Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Birmingham Hippodrome this month, capturing physical data from audience members.

If Richard Wagner were to have known before he died that some scientists in the future would create a psychometric tool to measure the "Wagnerism" in a given individual, would he be flattered or appalled?

Strategies for publishing linked data within the project.

The Music Encoding Initiative provides an open standard for publishing notated music, but its support for tablatures is currently weak. In this post, Richard discusses plans to improve it.

Considering how different groups of people experience leitmotifs has remained very unexplored in much of the academic literature. David Baker talks about how we're approaching this question.

Opera libretti represent a special sort of structured text. In this post, Richard describes an approach to recording that structure using an extension of the Text Encoding Intiative standard.

A brief description of efforts to enrich the catalogue information from Early Music Online and to relate it to specific page images

Collections of music for use in the project will have some information in common. This entry discusses APIs and semantic web technologies to allow us to structure this common information.

Using automally-transcribed musical content as a means of identifying works in Early Music Online, connecting to both other pieces in EMO and in external resources such as RISM.

Exploring connections between Transforming Musicology and an education-related project, PRAISE (Practice and peRformance Analysis Inspiring Social Education).

What might software to support analysing social, online music interactions look like?

First project blog post.