#outnow: Polifonia’s first data story

From Beethoven to Metallica, from Pinkpop to the Big Sing, from the beginning of the 20th century through to last week.

16 November 2022

From Beethoven to Metallica, from Pinkpop to the Big Sing, from the beginning of the 20th century through to last week. The Dutch Broadcast Concert collection from consortium partner the Netherlands Institute of Sound & Vision contains a wide range of concerts broadcast by Dutch public service broadcasters on TV and radio. It provides a unique window on Dutch musical culture over the years. Read more about the collection in Polifonia’s first data story, which will grow and develop along with the collection itself, or explore the data in the Media Suite via this link. In the Polifonia project, we will enrich the collection by linking it to other musical treasure troves.

The data story is created with the use of MELODY, a dashboard to turn linked open data into data stories. MELODY is created by the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre of the University of Bologna and will be released later this year.  

Recent News

Music libraries currently lack well-founded information retrieval tools. While it is relatively easy to find music based on metadata, content-based music retrieval still remains as a challenge. The Polifonia FACETS pilot aims to tackle this challenge by building a faceted search engine (FSE) for large collections of music documents.

Music libraries currently lack well-founded information retrieval tools. While it is relatively easy…

24 November 2023

This is a week of major importance to the Polifonia team, as its researchers join both the conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) and the conference for the International Semantic Web and Linked Data Community (ISWC): venues of significant importance for both research and industry. Read more about Polifonia’s contributions below.

This is a week of major importance to the Polifonia team, as its researchers join the conference of…

7 November 2023

On Oct, 13 an explorative workshop took place in a school in Milton Keynes (UK) as part of the Polifonia project. The “Music Meets Machines workshop” gave a look into cutting-edge technologies used to represent music history.

On Oct, 13 an explorative workshop took place in a school in Milton Keynes (UK) as part of the Polifonia…

3 November 2023

Between 16 and 20 October, the Polifonia consortium met in the Italian city of Bologna, home of the project coordinator University of Bologna (UNIBO). During an intensive week, the project team took steps in the development of the pilots, including the long-awaited web portal. Read more about the 7th project meeting here.

Between 16 and 20 October, the Polifonia consortium met in the Italian city of Bologna, home of the…

27 October 2023

The sensory journey “Data Wanderings” is a new project of Polifonia. The art installation will open on Friday, Oct. 13, in Bologna, Italy and you can visit it until the 28th of the month.

The sensory journey "Data Wanderings" is a new project of Polifonia. The art installation will open…

12 October 2023

Friday Oct. 13, high school students are able to explore music history withcutting-edge technologies. The Music Meets Machines: Exploring Music’s Hidden Connections with AI and Knowledge Graphs  is a workshop organised by Polifonia and The Open University.

On Friday Oct. 13, high school students are able to explore music history withcutting-edge technologies.…

11 October 2023

Make sure to check out a sensory experience called Data Wanderings from this Friday (Oct. 13) in Salaborsa, Bologna. The art installation is a Polifonia project, built by Umanesimo Artificiale and based on sources from our project.

Make sure to check out a sensory experience called Data Wanderings from this Friday (Oct. 13) in Salaborsa,…

9 October 2023

ChoCo, the Chord Corpus, is out! After months of work the team is proud to release a 20K+ timed harmonic annotations of scores and tracks. Its release comes with a long awaited publication in the journal ‘Scientific Data’.

ChoCo, the Chord Corpus, is out! After months of work the team is proud to release a 20K+ timed harmonic…

6 October 2023

The Netherlands AI Coalition’s working group Culture and Media collaborates with the Working Group Human Capital in their next Communityday – a yearly gathering for professionals working in the culture, media, art and education sector. This year’s line up includes Polifonia.

The Netherlands AI Coalition’s working group Culture and Media collaborates with the Working Group…

4 October 2023

Each autumn, an international event dedicated to digital art and electronic music takes place in Bologna: ROBOT Festival. Polifonia will be part of this exciting festival with a talk held by Valentina Presutti, Coordinator of the Project, on the 14th of October.

Each autumn, an international event dedicated to digital art and electronic music takes place in Bologna:…

2 October 2023

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 101004746