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The Multidimensional Steampunk Mixtape: Music Binder’s Volumes Meet Linked Data
Friday October 11, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Zoom
The Binders Volumes Research Initiative, funded by a 2023-2025 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a pilot project to advance preservation, access, and description of music binder’s volumes. These volumes appeared particularly in the mid-1800s, as compilations of selected sheet music in a way similar to mixtapes compiled about a century and a half later. As products of industrializing societies in the Age of Steam, one might call them “steampunk” mixtapes. The volumes preserve rare works while also capturing the social musical activity of their compilers, and the collections' characteristics as compound works containing notated music bring particular needs and opportunities for description above and beyond current cataloging and metadata practices. The affordances of Linked Data (particularly via SNAC and Wikidata) to further connect this multidimensional “collection of collections” are prominent features in this project, with the aim of maximizing discoverability and uncovering new insights into geographical connections and social and personal networks among musicians, publishers, and compilers. This presentation demonstrates the site in progress for the project, seeking user feedback while hopefully providing a precedent for similar projects in the future.
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avatar for Maristella Feustle

Maristella Feustle

Music Special Collections Librarian, University of North Texas Music Library
Maristella Feustle is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the University of North Texas, and has been the chair of MLA's Archives and Special Collections Committee from 2019-2023. She also serves on the Society of American Archivists' Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives... Read More →
Friday October 11, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Zoom
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