OCHRE

The Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory project is producing an anthology of history music theories from around the world. Publishing the resulting project in an open-access format is an ethical imperative for a project of this kind, and we are pleased to be pairing with the University of Chicago’s Online Publication Service.

As the Digital Director of the project, I am responsible for integrating our anthology’s contents into the University of Chicago’s OCHRE database, whence the materials will be assembled into the final online publication. This entails handling the digitization of theoretical sources in more than fifty languages, as well as a variety of multi-media formats. I am working together with the Online Publication Service staff to develop a custom taxonomy that will structure our project’s data. We will take full advantage of OCHRE’s semi-structured graph database to richly label all the data we input, thereby allowing the anthology’s readers to access its many sources through a wide variety of browsing parameters and undertake data analysis of curated materials from around the world.