Linked Music Hackathon

The SLICKMEM and SLoBR Semantic Media projects present:



The Linked Music Hackathon brings together those with a shared passion for music and the data that describes it: students, coders, researchers from all disciplines, and members of the public; all with an interest in exploring, combining, playing, hacking, and creating with the vast wealth of musical information now available in digital form.

We will provide access to a number of linked (and potentially linkable!) musical datasets drawn from sources including the British Library and the BBC, with a particular focus on historical music data including early European music of the 16th and 17th centuries; as well as a collection of tools and expertise to aid in the interlinking, analysis, creative use, and (re-)publication of this data.

Come and bring your ideas, enthusiasm, your own datasets and software, arts and craft materials, friends and colleagues! Technical expertise is not a requirement (although certainly much valued!) -- friendly techy collaborators will be available on the day. The goal is, loosely stated, to create something amazing, from scratch, within a very short time.

This event will take place at Goldsmiths, University of London, from 10am to 5pm on Fri October 9th 2015.

Datasets taking part:

  
• British Library - Early Music Online (Royal Holloway, University of London)

  
• Electronic Corpus of Lute Music

  
• BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show programme data

   
• Concert programme data from the In Concert project

   
• More to come!

Provisional schedule

09:30: Coffee
10:00: Introduction
10:30: Presentation of datasets
11:00: Hacking starts!
13:00: Lunch
16:00: Presentations
17:00: Close. Discussions continue at pub!

Sponsorship

Would you like to sponsor the Linked Music Hackathon? Please get in touch!


Adapted from Portion of a ms. leaf by POP (CC BY 2.0)

Funding

This event is funded by the EPSRC Semantic Media Network.

Support

Contributing datasets generously provided by:

You have data that you would like to contribute? Please send us an e-mail!