IncipitSearch - A Guide to Collaboration

A centralized access to sources, editions, and further kinds of publications facilitates the research process and provides a comprehensive overview of existing information. To connect musicological collections and repositories, we created a metasearch for annotated music: IncipitSearch. It is a tool and a service specifically tailored for research on music incipits, the initial sequences of notes that characterize a work. IncipitSearch is a service to interconnect musical pieces via metadata. It is also a tool that can be reintegrated into existing digital research platforms. By connecting some of the largest digital collections of music metadata it already offers access to around 1 million incipits. In four comprehensible steps, this poster will be a guide explaining how data owners can add their data to IncipitSearch and how the reimplementation of the search functionality can be carried out.

Further Resources:
IncipitSearch Platform: https://incipitsearch.adwmainz.net
Publication: Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch - Interlinking Musicological Repositories. DH 2018 Bridges / Puentes Book of Abstracts, Mexico City, 2018. URL: https://dh2018.adho.org/en/incipitsearch-interlinking-musicological-repositories.