Development of an MEI and TEI based Model for Contextual Indexing of Music Documentation: Holdings of the Detmold Court Theatre (1825 - 1875)

不仅对图书馆和档案馆，而且对研究机构来说，保证永久有效地访问非常异构的研究数据是目前的一个巨大挑战。只有通过使用国际标准，才有可能实现共享访问，并结合以真正符合所有有关各方利益的形式分析这些数据的各种选择。通过文本编码倡议（TEI）和音乐编码倡议（MEI）的格式，我们拥有为这些任务准备的标准。两者都为数据和元数据的记录提供了详细的结构。通过将这些记录与权威档案联系起来，我们将能够开辟接近我们文化遗产的新途径。特别是MEI的元数据部分首次提供了深度注册乐谱的机会，允许学术辩论，而不会失去与图书馆员编目结果的兼容性。通过与活跃在这一领域的所有代理商的密切合作，该项目希望开发一个可重复使用的模型，以19世纪（1825-1875）的Detmold Court剧院为例，为表演材料和其他相应文件编制索引，这些材料以非常全面的方式传输。用户不仅可以通过图书馆管理员的索引数据，而且可以通过使这些对象的各种上下文无障碍来访问各个对象。通过这些不同类型的文献构建一个互联的数据网络，将为世纪宫廷戏剧活动领域的多方面研究提供新的形式。在本报告所述项目的第二阶段，将扩大、审查和具体说明基于MEI的模型的开发工作（始于2014年），完成对这一收藏的基本记录，并继续对其中一些藏品进行更全面和更有示范性的索引编制工作。为了测试和扩大模型，从其他图书馆中挑选的一些材料也应纳入索引过程。这种试图将图书馆员和学者的需求联系起来的新的编目方式的潜力将通过将索引模型与新的可视化形式相结合来说明，以促进对这种模型的进一步兴趣。此外，应该通过提供数据输入和数据转换工具以及在数字人文学科中深入教授或讨论该模型来促进对该模型的接受。从一开始，所有这些活动都是与图书馆员和学者合作完成的，以便在涉及类似馆藏时重新使用结果（模型和可视化）。最后，这种方法的优势，在文化机构领域的研究“法院剧院”将证明它与扩展形式的权威文件或控制词汇。

Not only for libraries and archives but also for research institutes the warranty of permanent and effective access to very heterogeneous research data is a big challenge at the present time. Only by using international standards it will be possible to realize shared access in combination with varying options for analysing these data in a form which really meets the interest of all involved parties. With the formats of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) we possess standards which are prepared for these tasks. Both provide detailed structures for the recording of data and metadata. By connecting these records with authority files we shall be able to open up new ways of approaching our cultural heritage. Especially the metadata section of MEI for the first time offers opportunities to register sheet music in a depth that allows scholarly debates without loosing compatability to the cataloging results of librarians. By close cooperation with all agents which are active in this field the project wants to develop a re-usable model for indexing performance material and other corresponding documents by using the holdings of the Detmold Court Theatre in the 19th Century (1825-1875) as an example, which are transmitted in an exceptionally comprehensive way. The user shall have access to the individual objects not only through the indexing data of the librarians but also by making the various contexts of these objects accessible. Constructing an interconnected network of data with these different types of documents will allow new forms of multi-faceted research in the field of court-theatre activities in the 19th century. In the second phase of the project applied here, the development of the MEI-based model (which started in 2014) shall be expanded, reviewed and specified by completing the basic recording of this collection as well as by continuing the work of a more thorough and exemplary indexing of some of these holdings. For testing and broadening the model a few selected materials from other libraries shall be included in the indexing process, too. The potentials of this new ways of cataloging which tries to connect the needs of librarians and scholars shall be illustrated by combining the indexing model with new forms of visualization in a way that will promote further interest in this model. Additionally, the acceptance of this model should be forwarded by providing tools for data entry and data conversion as well as by intensively teaching or discussing the model within the Digital Humanities. From the start, all these activities are done in cooperation with librarians and scholars in order to allow a re-use of the results (model and visualization) when similar holdings are concerned. Finally, the advantages of this approach for research in the field of the cultural institution 'court theatre' shall be demonstrated by combining it with extended forms of authority files or controlled vocabularies.