In search of the ideal graph representation

During the spring semester, first-year information and computer science students created a user interface to make data on pipe organs accessible to a wider audience. Polifonia is excited to report on this fruitful collaboration between our stakeholder Utrecht University (Frans Wiering) and the ORGANS pilot.

In this new series on the Polifonia project website, the team would like to shed light on early adopters who have re-used Polifonia’s output. Polifonia’s primary goal is for its software, datasets and other applications to be used and exploited by stakeholders and other parties. One of our early adopters is Global Education Digest’s, which re-uses Polifonia’s CLEF, the platform for crowdsourcing and cataloguing that was developed for musoW.

In order to answer research questions, musical heritage scholars need to combine diverse datasets ranging from music scores, audiovisual material to metadata. They need to identify similar entities and concepts implicitly present in the data, across different collections in different institutions. This process is currently mainly conducted manually, with the diverse results being rarely connected and shared in a way to be easily reused. To overcome the burden of this manual task, INTERLINK will focus on revealing and making compatible the entities and concepts hidden in digital music libraries and audiovisual archives. Pilot leader Jacopo de Berardinis tells in the latest video how they will do that with state-of-the-art methods for computational music analysis.

Andrea Poltronieri (UNIBO) is to present the paper The Harmonic Memory: a Knowledge Graph of harmonic patterns as a trustworthy framework for computational creativity at the Web Conference 2023, a yearly international conference on the topic of the future directions of the World Wide Web.

Many people would probably answer this question with a clear “no”. Is it because they really believe computers cannot? Or maybe there is an inner voice that refuses to believe that musical creativity is not exclusive to humans? In the meantime, AI systems such as DALL-E and ChatGPT have already proven unprecedented performance for generating images and textual artefacts, and are now becoming ubiquitous in our society. What about AI-generated music?

Following Polifonia’s successful Dom Tower excursion (ORGANS pilot) and Haptic Device workshops (ACCESS pilot), Polifonia again invited music lovers to come and explore music in relation to (art) history. Paul Mulholland (leader WP5) invited the Apollo Youth Panel to try out the Deep Viewpoints app with an exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Peter van Kranenburg (Meertens Institute, KNAW), pilot leader of ORGANS and TUNES, is part of the upcoming AVA_Net webinar on connecting music collections.

The latest Polifonia tool opens doors of multilingual textual musical heritage resources. Find out what you can do with this tool and how it was developed.

Polifonia’s project leader Valentina Presutti (University of Bologna) is one of the 4 keynote speakers at the upcoming edition of ICAART 2023.

Applications are now open for participation in The International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS 2023) in Bertinoro (Italy), from June 11th to June 17th, 2023. Sign up quickly as there are only 60 spots and the closing date of March 30th 2023 is approaching!