Bridging complex heterogeneous datasets, workflows, and projects in Transforming Musicology

Transforming Musicology is an Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (AHRC) funded project bringing together scholars and expertise from several different UK Higher Education institutions. There are seven distinct approaches to musicological investigation: the first focuses on 16th century lute and vocal music (Goldsmiths College, University of London); the second is a bipart examination of leitmotivs in compositions by Richard Wagner, and the psychological effect hearing them has on the listener (Goldsmiths and University of Oxford); the fourth has a focus on social media and network analysis (Goldsmiths). These are enriched by the additional scholarly endeavours of Largescale corpus analysis of historical electronic music using MIR tools: Informing an ontology of electronic music and cross validating content based methods, University of Durham; Characterising stylistic interpretations through automated analysis of ornamentation in Irish traditional music recordings, led by the University of Birmingham; Medieval Music, Big Data and the Research Blend, University of Southampton; and In Concert: Towards a Collaborative Digital Archive of Musical Ephemera, led by the University of Cardiff. Bridging all of these is a linked research network, which uses RDF and Linked Data as a semantic glue (under development by theUniversity of Oxford)