Klezmer Institute Digital Humanities Projects: Klezmer Archive Project & the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Klezmer Institute Digital Humanities Projects: Klezmer Archive Project & the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project
Author: Christina Crowder
Abstract: Abstract: In this paper we argue that both klezmer music and the Yiddish language are not simply historical artifacts, but the loci of thriving contemporary interest communities and that creating digital structures tailored to the needs of these communities is a clear imperative that matches the need to design for academic best practice in the digital humanities space. The Klezmer Archive Project and the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP) present a unique opportunity to create digital spaces that support culture bearers, and to develop high-quality, authoritative resources for newcomers to the field. Both of these projects have been the unlikely beneficiaries of Coronavirus-related lockdowns in unexpected ways. The Klezmer Archive functions as a distributed team, and much of the communal work, exchange, learning, and events in the KMDMP take place in zoom rooms.
Date: 10/05/2021
Primary URL: https://klezmerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/POLIN-2021-Whats-New-Whats-Next-conference-Paper-—-KMDMP-and-KA-FINAL-3-25-22.pdf
Primary URL Description: Download link for Conference paper, hosted on the Articles page for the Klezmer Institute website (klezmerinstitute.org/articles/.
Secondary URL: https://klezmerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/POLIN-conf-slides-KA-and-kmdmp-FINAL-3-25-2022.pdf
Secondary URL Description: Powerpoint slides for this presentation
Conference Name: POLIN: What's New, What's Next?
What's Up With Kiselgof? A behind the scenes look at the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project and the Klezmer Archive Project. (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: What's Up With Kiselgof? A behind the scenes look at the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project and the Klezmer Archive Project.
Abstract: Presentation slides for an online public lecture for the Promiscuous World of Jewish Music online series hosted by Josh Horowitz.
Author: Christina Crowder
Date: 1/11/2021
Location: Online Zoom Presentation
Primary URL: https://klezmerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Promiscuous-World-Slides-FINAL-1-11-21.pdf
Primary URL Description: Hosted space for the slide presentation used during this lecture.
Archiving Music Based in Oral Tradition: The Klezmer Archive Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Archiving Music Based in Oral Tradition: The Klezmer Archive Project
Author: Christina Crowder
Author: Clara Byom
Author: Eleonore Biezunski
Abstract: Documentation of music based in oral tradition is inherently complicated: unknown composers, inconsistent names, multiple versions, and overlapping genres stretch the limits of archival taxonomies. To address these issues, the Klezmer Archive Project is investigating ways to structure corpus-specific metadata and to build tools for curated user contributions within a flexible architecture, showing relationships between items, linking multiple recordings, tune variations, and shared melodic material and any other user-identified relationship artifact-to-artifact.
This presentation will relay the project team's findings in its first year of work, including UX research with community members, music encoding considerations in the case study materials, and further thoughts on corpus-specific metadata ontologies for music based in oral tradition.
Date: 03/05/2022
Primary URL: http://conferences.blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2022/02/mla_2022_program_2.16.2022.pdf
Primary URL Description: Link to the conference proceedings (recordings and other resources not yet available)
Secondary URL: https://klezmerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-MLA-Slides-FINAL-3-25-2022.pdf
Secondary URL Description: Upload link for Presentation slides hosted on Klezmer Institute Website.
Conference Name: MLA 2022 Virtual Conference
Klezmer Archive Community Meeting 2021 (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Klezmer Archive Community Meeting 2021
Abstract: Klezmer Archive Community Meeting — You’ve heard about the Klezmer Archive and now’s your chance to meet the team! Klezmer Institute held a Community Meeting about the Klezmer Archive Project on June 6, 2021. This is the video recording of this Zoom meeting.
Author: Christina Crowder
Author: Clara Byom
Author: Max Rothman
Author: Yonatan Malin
Author: Dan Kunda Thagard
Author: Matthew Stein
Author: Schyler Versteeg
Author: Eleonore Biezunski
Date: 06/06/2021
Location: Zoom / YouTube
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/geo9rD70sBo
Primary URL Description: YouTube link for this video
Klezmer Institute Awarded NEH DHAG Grant (Blog Post)
Title: Klezmer Institute Awarded NEH DHAG Grant
Author: Christina Crowder
Abstract: The Klezmer Institute is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Phase I Digital Humanities Access Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2021-2022. The Klezmer Archive project aims to create a universally accessible, useful resource for interaction, discovery, and research on all available information about klezmer music.
Date: 12/18/2020
Primary URL: https://klezmerinstitute.org/2020/12/18/klezmer-archive-receives-neh-dhag-award/
Primary URL Description: Klezmer Institute Home Page
Blog Title: Klezmer Institute awarded NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for Klezmer Archive Project.
Website: Klezmer Institute
Klezmer Archive Community Meeting (Blog Post)
Title: Klezmer Archive Community Meeting
Author: Christina Crowder
Abstract: Klezmer Institute invites you to a Community Meeting about the Klezmer Archive Project. Funded for a two-year, Phase 1 Digital Humanities Access Grant by the NEH, the Klezmer Archive project aims to create a universally accessible, useful resource for interaction, discovery, and research on all available information about klezmer music.
Date: 06/04/2022
Primary URL: https://klezmerinstitute.org/2021/06/04/klezmer-archive-community-meeting/
Primary URL Description: Home page for the Klezmer Institutez
Blog Title: Klezmer Archive Community Meeting
Website: Klezmer Institute
Archiving Music Based in Oral Tradition: The Klezmer Archive Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Archiving Music Based in Oral Tradition: The Klezmer Archive Project
Author: Clara Byom
Author: Christina Crowder
Abstract: The Klezmer Archive Project — Documenting Culture Bearers and Human Networks in Traditional Music Communities
Klezmer, the instrumental music of Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe, was and continues to be a transnational music based in oral tradition. For decades members of the klezmer community have dreamt of a centralized repository for klezmer tunes and their historical/ethnographic context, but creating such a resource within current archival structures leaves out a critical source of knowledge—klezmer culture bearers. These individuals have a deep understanding of repertoire, history, and folklore that is highly valued within the international klezmer community, but it is only available to the whole community when it is collected and organized. With this in mind, the Klezmer Archive project (KA) aims to create a universally accessible, useful resource for interaction, discovery, and research on available information about klezmer music.
Like many folk/ethnic music communities, the international network of klezmer specialists includes musicians with a range of expertise but centers around culture-bearers who collect and share information through performance, teaching, documentation/field work, recordings, and publishing. One of the core goals of the KA project is documenting the networks of human contact through which cultural (musical) information is exchanged in ways that are not reflected by traditional metrics, such as quantity/location of performances, books published, or recording catalog (all of which have many well-worn paths for documentation).
The Klezmer Archive project is adapting and extending the DoReMus ontology (itself a harmonization of CIDOC CRM and FRBRoo, extending classes and properties specific to musical data, and a set of shared multilingual vocabularies) to document human relationships. The “human relationship” concept allows people to be connected in the data in a way that more accurately reflects how cultural knowledge is exc
Date: 11/23/2022
Primary URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lcJA8WKo6v4YZ0XvDSTXDDRC2PqKGrPc/view?usp=sharing
Primary URL Description: link to google drive location of presentation slides PDF
Conference Name: DH Budapest 2022: Digital Humanities Conference November 23-25
Project Site About the project RSS feed Documenting Folklore in Digital Structures — The Fuzzy Genre Boundary Conundrum (Blog Post)
Title: Project Site About the project RSS feed Documenting Folklore in Digital Structures — The Fuzzy Genre Boundary Conundrum
Author: Christina Crowder
Abstract: How do we make sense of conflicting data to arrive at genre designations that resonate with historical practice? How do we account for overlapping or confusing genre classifications, especially when there may be more than one “correct” answer? How do we organize classifications and typologies in such a way that they are useful for search?
Date: 10/24/2022
Primary URL: https://blog.klezmerarchive.org/posts/documenting-folklore-in-digital-structures-the-fuzzy-genre-boundary-conundrum/
Blog Title: Documenting Folklore in Digital Structures — The Fuzzy Genre Boundary Conundrum
Website: https://blog.klezmerarchive.org/