Accelerating embedded computational analysis of Web data about music in UK universities

加速英国大学音乐网络数据的嵌入式计算分析

• 批准号: AH/X007316/1
• 负责人: Eamonn Bell
• 金额: $ 25.83万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX007316%2F1
• 关键词: Accelerating; embedded; computational; analysis; Web

Web data is especially useful for the cultural study of music as the internet plays host to novel and complex cultural and social forms, like music streaming, ripping and sharing, and online co-production of music. However, specialised digital skills are required to retrieve, process, and analyse this data, especially at the scales that are required to deal with the increasing volumes of information available to researchers online. Despite its importance, which has been recently recognised by music researchers working in a variety of disciplines - including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, digital media and communication studies, and sociology - there are limited opportunities for UK-based researchers to acquire the necessary skills that will allow them to unlock this valuable data for use in their own research. The proposed research will address this problem by piloting a new digital skills training programme for music researchers, which will train approximately 60 UK-based researchers at a variety of digital skill levels and representing various career stages in topics relevant to using Web data as a primary source. Six, one-day, online workshops will be held on topics that are directly relevant to the needs of music researchers who are interested in making use of Web data in their research, which will be elicited through a survey programme and focus groups at the partner institutions of Durham University and the University of Birmingham. Some of the topics covered include: an introduction to Web technology for music researchers; training in the use new, user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for the retrieval of Web data; and the advanced use of command-line interfaces to capture and analyse large amounts of Web data. The training offered will be of direct relevance to music researchers, as all workshop leaders themselves are music researchers, and they will be invited to illustrate how digital skills training has allowed them to answer exciting, transformative research questions. To ensure the usefulness of the training sessions to a much broader audience than the first cohort of trainees covered in this pilot project, workshop leaders and project staff will prepare their training materials according to an innovative and well-regarded methodology for open, reusable, and sustainable software skills training, known as The Carpentries. To ensure this, the project will consult with trainers from the Sustainable Software Institute, who will provide workshop leaders and project staff with the training needed to become certified Carpentries instructors and to successfully design and deliver collaborative digital skills training lessons. Toward the end of the project, the results of the survey programme and focus groups will be analysed, and the strengths and the weaknesses of the pilot will be critically analysed in a co-authored, peer-reviewed journal article. Additionally, the training materials used in the workshops will be published online and made freely available to all participants and other music researchers, so that they in turn may train others in digital skills that unlock Web data as a primary source. The project is led by a multidisciplinary team of investigators, spanning computer science and musicology, who all have used digital skills to advance their research goals. Working together with a Research Associate, the project team will impact digital skills delivery in the UK in three ways. In the short term, the pilot embeds a new capability at Durham and Birmingham for scalable digital skills training for music researchers, responding to actual need and training best practice. In the medium term, the project deliverables will be used to train peers, educate students, and support future decision-making by digital skills training stakeholders. Finally, in the long term, we embed digital skills in music research by emphasising their transformative aspect and creating future demand for related training.

网络数据对于音乐的文化研究特别有用，因为互联网承载着新颖而复杂的文化和社会形式，如音乐流媒体，翻录和共享以及在线音乐合作制作。然而，需要专业的数字技能来检索，处理和分析这些数据，特别是在处理研究人员在线提供的越来越多的信息所需的规模上。尽管它的重要性，这已经被最近在各种学科工作的音乐研究人员认识到-包括历史音乐学，民族音乐学，数字媒体和传播研究，以及社会学-英国的研究人员获得必要技能的机会有限，这将使他们能够解锁这些有价值的数据用于自己的研究。拟议的研究将解决这个问题，试行一个新的数字技能培训计划的音乐研究人员，这将培训约60名英国的研究人员在各种数字技能水平，并代表不同的职业生涯阶段的主题相关使用网络数据作为主要来源。将举办六次为期一天的在线讲习班，讨论与有兴趣在研究中利用网络数据的音乐研究人员的需求直接相关的主题，这些主题将通过达勒姆大学和伯明翰大学的伙伴机构的调查方案和重点小组进行调查。所涉及的一些主题包括：为音乐研究人员介绍网络技术;培训使用新的、用户友好的图形用户界面检索网络数据;以及高级使用命令行界面捕获和分析大量网络数据。所提供的培训将与音乐研究人员直接相关，因为所有研讨会负责人本身都是音乐研究人员，他们将被邀请说明数字技能培训如何使他们能够回答令人兴奋的变革性研究问题。为了确保培训课程对比本试点项目所涵盖的第一批学员更广泛的受众有用，研讨会负责人和项目工作人员将根据一种创新的、广受好评的开放式、可重复使用和可持续的软件技能培训方法（称为Carpentries）编写培训材料。为了确保这一点，该项目将咨询可持续软件研究所的培训师，他们将为研讨会负责人和项目工作人员提供成为认证Carpentries讲师所需的培训，并成功设计和提供协作数字技能培训课程。在项目接近尾声时，将对调查方案和重点小组的结果进行分析，并将在一篇共同撰写、经同行审查的期刊文章中对试点项目的优缺点进行批判性分析。此外，讲习班使用的培训材料将在网上发布，并免费提供给所有参与者和其他音乐研究人员，以便他们反过来可以培训其他人掌握数字技能，将网络数据作为主要来源。该项目由一个跨学科的研究团队领导，涵盖计算机科学和音乐学，他们都使用数字技能来推进他们的研究目标。该项目团队将与一名研究助理合作，以三种方式影响英国的数字技能交付。在短期内，试点项目将在达勒姆和伯明翰为音乐研究人员提供可扩展的数字技能培训，以满足实际需求并培训最佳实践。在中期，项目交付成果将用于培训同行，教育学生，并支持数字技能培训利益相关者未来的决策。最后，从长远来看，我们通过强调其变革方面并创造未来对相关培训的需求，将数字技能嵌入音乐研究。