The Polifonia portal project aims to integrate various user stories, research pilots, and knowledge management through semantic web technology to enhance digital musical heritage resources. It involves a diverse range of stakeholders including cultural institutions and researchers, focusing on the automatic generation of metadata and improved accessibility for users. The project emphasizes iterative development and the alignment of different research methodologies within the consortium.

1. Polifonia | 2020
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The Polifonia portal: a confluence of user
stories, research pilots, data management and
knowledge graph technology
Andrea Scharnhorst, Femmy Admiraal, Peter van Kranenburg, Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann, Paul Mulholland
DARIAH Annual event 2021, Interfaces, September 7-9, 2021, On-line
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement GA101004746.
The communication reflects only the author’s view and the Research Executive Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

2. ● About Polifonia
● Vision(s) of Polifonia’s portal
● Stakeholders of the portal
● Making of the portal - interfaces for translatory work
● Summary
ToC

3. Polifonia | 2020
About

4. Polifonia | 2020
PILOTS as corner stones
Note that there is a variety of content providers, sources (data, metadata, formats); the connecting thread is semantic web-technology
(knowledge graphs) - POLIFONIA covers texts (about/around music), scores (music notation) and sound. The pilots are of different
character: They are data, method, tool and audience driven.
About

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Visions on the
POLIFONIA
Portal
Demonstrator
● Methods for continuous
indexing of MH resources,
● Methods for automatic and
semiautomatic generation of
metadata according to the
Polifonia ontologies,
● Methods for searching, querying,
browsing MH resources
Aggregator
of digital musical heritage
collections: extending musoW,
a catalogue of Musical Data
on the Web
Registry
MH resources, including but
not limited to all collections
used and produced in the
project
Vision
Credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newtons_cradle_animation_book.gif
From finding sources to deep analysis

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Stakeholders of the
POLIFONIA Portal
Wider public
Consumers of
Music
(Children, People
with hearing
disabilities)
Associated with
the consortium
Cultural heritage
institutions
In the
consortium
Pilots - researchers,
archivists
from different
humanities fields
Knowledge
engineers
Stakeholders

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Making of the Portal
Research Data
Management
Plan
ORDP
1. iteration
Collection of
existing
ontologies and
competency
questions
Github based
Stories,
persona’s and
manipasta
Meetings
Github
Making
Survey in the
consortium
(sources and
epistemics)
Atlas of sources
and knowledge
units

8. Polifonia - First DMP - results
Inventory of sources
Making

9. Polifonia - First DMP - results
Inventory of sources
Making

10. Polifonia - First DMP - results
Inventory of sources
Making

11. Polifonia | 2020
Knowledge management inside of POLIFONIA Summary

12. ● The making of the portal is interwoven with the organisation of the knowledge
exchange inside of the project.
○ Qualitative methods are applied to further specify the needs inside of the
consortium.
○ Output as Portal versions but also the RDM are envisioned as iterative events.
● Challenges lie in the alignment of bottom-up and top-down approaches and the
continuous re-negotiations inside of the project.
○ Visualisations, tabular overviews, archetypical stories, personatas and
workflows act as interfaces for the translatory work among different
epistemological frameworks and research goals.
● The POLIFONIA Portal as the final interface to resources and methods emerges
from a journey of the consortium accompanied by temporal interfaces.
Summary

13. Let us know your experiences with
interfaces used in a process of
interdisciplinary work!
Thanks
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement GA101004746.
The communication reflects only the author’s view and the Research Executive Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.