Avant-Garde in Arts Periodicals from 1848 to 1923 (and Beyond): - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Searching Modernism and the Avant-Garde in Arts Periodicals from 1848 to 1923 (and Beyond): Musical Discovery in Princeton University Library’s Blue Mountain Project Darwin F. Scott Music Librarian, Princeton University IAML — Antwerp July 15, 2014

Source for the Blue Mountain Name Vasily Kandinsky, The Blue Mountain ( Der blaue Berg ), 1908 – 09 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Blue Mountain Journals 2

Blue Mountain Journals 3

Blue Mountain Journals 4

Blue Mountain Project Institutional Partners

Blue Mountain Project Institutional Partners San Diego State University Dalibo r, numerous volumes

Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (FADGI)

Goals of the Blue Mountain Project Grant, Phase 1 • National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Collections and Reference Resources grant period: Sept. 2012 – August 2014. • Complete digitization and storage of 34 selected journals following specified standards; OCR the texts; provide supporting METS/ALTO and MODS records. Mid-July 2014 progress: only 4 titles left to complete by the end of August. Create functioning Web site for the 34 journals (images, • metadata, and text) available via the Veridian delivery system, with multilingual functionality, links to other digital resources, and bibliographic histories (to continue in post-grant period). Sponsored conference Remediating the Avant-Grade: Magazine • and Digital Archives at Princeton University, 25 – 26 Oct. 2013. Design and pilot the framework for an advanced discovery • interface and analysis toolset (continuing in post-grant period). • Promote the Blue Mountain Project among scholars and librarians.

Technical Aspects of the Blue Mountain Project • Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials , produced by the Still Image Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), August 2010. • Most materials photographed on site in Princeton University Library’s state-of-the-art Digital Photography Studio. 24-bit RGB image capture, digitally rendered to produce uniform long • dimension of 7,200 pixels, stored as uncompromised TIFF files with large, nonproprietary color profile (Pro Photo RGB). • Adherence to standards and practices developed by the NEH for its National Digital Newspaper Program. METS / ALTO format (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard / • Analyzed Layout and Text Object). • MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) encodes metadata about individual articles, images, and text blocks. TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) for corrections, annotations, and other sorts • of amending / augmenting of metadata. • Digital image archive presently delivered through Veridian content- management system (DLC Consulting) pending further development. Big Data storage with Isilon (EMG); images deposited with the HathiTrust. • Blue Mountain Project GitHub service hosts XML data for asset sharing • and collaboration.

Cliff Wulfman’s Grand Blue Mountain Vision

Sample Image Page

Complex Page Layout link

Sample Image Page — Article on Déodat de Séverac (1872 – 1921)

METS Logical Structural Map (structMAP) Sample for Séverac Article LABEL=“DÉODAT DE SÉVERAC.” TYPE=“Music”

ALTO Coding Sample — Start of Séverac Article DÉODAT DE SÉVERAC Le concert du 25 mai

MODS Coding Sample for the June 6, 1905 Issue of Le Mercure musical

Related Item Coding Sample from MODS Record Embedded in the METS file. We “prime” the MODS record for each issue with dates, volume, and issues data. Then docWorks generates a <relatedItem> element for each constituent-level item the operators have marked up in the issues. These are merged into the initial MODS record upon export of the entire record.

docWorks Processing

Data Sharing Via Github

Veridian Page Sample

Veridian Interface

Veridian Interface — Advanced Search [Superimposed selection boxes]

Exploring Music Beyond the Music Titles Essay by Carl Engel in Broom , April 1922

Search on “Stra v insky”

Essay on Stravinsky’s Ballets from Action

PDF Option —Essay on Stravinsky’s Ballets from Action

Search on “ Strawinsky ”

SIC, May 1917 — Costumes for Stravinsky’s Ballet Le chant du rossignol (by Depero), a Cocteau P oem, and “Le dieu plastique ”

Veridian’s Zoom Feature

Article Clip Feature

Le dieu plastique (PDF feature, rotated, converted to JPEG)

Another Search Result on “ Strawinsky ” from SIC : Title Page and Serendipitous Discovery of Press Extracts on Apollinaire’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias Strawinsky

TEI-Encoded Transcriptions: Authority Control for Text Searching — Future Workaround for the Stav/winsky Problem We can authorize him with a text string linked to the Virtual International Authority File. Stravinsky or Strawinsky or Стравинский = http://viaf.org/viaf/17309155 A search on stravinsky would retrieve pages from French and German journals encoded as: <persName key= “ http://viaf.org/viaf /17309155” >Igor Strawinsky</persName> Planned enhanced name encoding for the future METS/ALTO delivery system developed by Princeton to replace Veridian.

Blue Mountain Project, Phase 2 • Phase 2 Collections and Reference Resources grant proposal submitted to the NEH in July 2014 to expand the Blue Mountain Collection. Decision by April 2015. • Includes 39 additional titles from Europe, the U.S., and South America in Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. • Specifically music titles include Revue wagnérienne (1885 – 88); The Meister: Quarterly Journal of the London Branch of the Wagner Society (1888 – 95); Die redenden Künsten (1895 – 97 ), and Zeitschrift der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft (1899 – 1914).

Blue Mountain Project, Phase 3 Application Interface User Interface

Blue Mountain Project, Phase 2 and Beyond • Expand Blue Mountain’s capabilities with two new toolkits: • Blue Mountaineer: Web application for exploring through visualizations, topic modeling, and other forms of data mining and retrieval. • Blue Mountain Springs: XML database framework supporting a suite of Web services to enable users and programs to pose sophisticated queries against a large corpus of data using eXist-db (a robust, open- source XML database architecture). • Other grant pursuits: • Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant for Libraries • NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant • Form additional partnerships for completing journal runs: • Issues or volumes not held by Princeton • Missing covers, supplements, advertisements, and pages for issues already digitized. • Our ultimate goal: to digitally reproduce every issue of the journals as originally published (including specially printings and variants).