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| Project Title | "Digital Encoding for Medieval Chant Transcription" |
| Funding Agency | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
| Dates of Funding | October 1, 2001 - March 31, 2003 |
| Principal Investigator | Prof. Thomas Forrest Kelly Chair, Department of Music Harvard University |
| Software Engineer | Prof. Louis W. G. Barton St Anne's College, University of Oxford |
| Advisory Board | Prof. John A. Caldwell University of Oxford Dr. Jim Davies University of Oxford Dr. Annalisa Doneda Università di Pavia Prof. Ugo O. Gagliardi Harvard University (retired) Prof. James Grier University of Western Ontario Prof. Andreas Haug Universität Erlangen Dr. Peter G. Jeavons University of Oxford Dr. Bradford Maiani Univ. of N. Carolina--Chapel Hill Prof. Michael D. Smith Harvard University Dr. John Stinson La Trobe University (emeritus) |
| Software Technicians | Dr. Jacqueline Elemans Clare McInerney Dr. Tillman Weyde Jens Wissmann |
| Other Technical Assistance | Samuel H. Byland Robert B. Garvey Alexander Lüdeke Vani Murthy Barry Ng Dr. Ruth Ripley |
| Administration at Harvard | Mary Gerbi Karen Rynne Fernando Viesca |
| Mission |
Digital Encoding for Medieval Chant Transcription ("the Project") will produce a viable, long-term solution to an important
problem in content access, cultural conservation, and scientific study of medieval chant manuscripts. Specifically, the Project will
develop a much-needed software infrastructure that will enable digital transcription of the archaic forms of musical notation that
were used in these manuscripts.
Transcriptions created with this software will be interoperable across computer platforms, serve
a variety of uses, and have long-term usefulness. Anticipated uses include public access to content, programmable analysis
and comparison of chants, easier creation of examples in books and articles, interactive training of students, and so on.
This interdisciplinary project brings together computer scientists and some of the world's leading authorities on medieval music
notation. An importance of this project is as a test case for applying modern software-engineering techniques to a qualitative
field at a high level of sophistication.
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