Digital Fieldwork Francesco Spagnolo The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Jewish Music Online Analog Repositories, Digital Fieldwork and the Web of Collaborative Tools Association for Jewish Studies Boston, Dec. 20 2010
Presented in the panel, "Jewish Music Online: Analog Repositories, Digital Fieldwork, and the Web of Collaborative Tools," at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston (Mass.), December 20, 2010.
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Digital Fieldwork
Francesco SpagnoloThe Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life
Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Jewish Music OnlineAnalog Repositories, Digital Fieldwork
and the Web of Collaborative Tools
Association for Jewish StudiesBoston, Dec. 20 2010
JNUL Digitized Book Repository – Music: A. Z. Idelsohn Vol. 6 (DjVu format)
Institutional Content: The National Library of Israel: National Sound Archives (NSA)Full Catalog - Search Results for “nigun” (best searched in Hebrew)
The NSA is about to launch its digitization project online (currently non-public beta)
Social Media (Crowdsourced) Content: piyut.org.il
Piyut.org.il includes user-contributed content (texts and musical recordings of Hebrew liturgical poems) derived in part from commercial recordings and from the holdings of the National Sound Archives (NSA)
Options for digital sound online: content-specific aggregators
Summary: Horrible metadata – visualization via images (stills, slideshows, videos) – no directly
exportable metadata – no licensing – "comments” & “tags” – LONGEVITY??? – ANNOTATIONS via Social Media Aggregation – dedicated app – blurred lines between
content and marketing are confusing
Where is fieldwork in all this?
Music online offers a platform for collaborative fieldwork
But it currently requires making some choices regarding
- Metadata structures- Platform
How collaborative fieldwork can, well, work:
The adoption of flickr.com by the Library of Congress and a host of other institutions worldwide joining the Flickr Commons established de facto a standard for images
How collaborative fieldwork can, well, work:
Flickr’s support for exportable metadata standards, dating tools, geolocation, tags (also machine-generated), licensing, comments, varying levels of permissions AND annotations
looks like an excellent model for sounds online
Digital FieldworkEmerging practice, based on:
• collaborative tools & research practices rather than digital sources alone
• notion of distributed rather than centralized knowledge brought forth by the digital humanities
pilot projectJewish Digital Narratives
of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeBancroft Library, UC Berkeley