Workshop: Possibilities and Limitations of Digital Annotation Tools for Audio-Visual Material with a focus on Sound and Music

JGU Mainz in Kooperation mit der GU Frankfurt

Organisiert von Prof. Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch (JGU Mainz), Prof. Dr. Barbara Alge (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main) und Dr. Christoph Günther (JGU Mainz).       

vom 02.-04.05.2022 in der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

The workshop focuses on the possibilities and limitations of digital annotation tools for research in the Humanities interpreting sound and music in audio-visual material. Although tools for audio-visual data are a broad field in the Digital Humanities in general, the multi-perspective analysis of audio phenomena has only played a minor role so far. Among the software solutions currently being used in various disciplines, three characteristics can be noted: First, tools were developed to suit rather universal questions without addressing topics pertaining specifically to auditory data. Second, in other cases audio-visual data and means of sound and music analysis were not considered, because textual approaches had been prioritized as the main method of inquiry. Third, digital annotation software is limited in the ways in which it enables certain kinds of transcription, coding or description of meta data.

Based on these observations the key questions of the workshop are: How do researchers approach the analysis of acoustic data? How can digital annotation tools be used to account for the complexity of audio-visual data? Considering the different methodologies, what ways of exploring music and sound are important for future research? What role can new developments in the Computational Sciences play and how can current discussions about (meta)data standards and FAIR data principles be taken into consideration? To discuss these theoretical and methodological questions the workshop will bring together fifteen experienced DH specialists and international researchers from five countries (Germany, France, UK, Australia and USA) and various disciplines of the Humanities spectrum such as Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, Art History, Anthropology, Islamic Studies, Linguistics and Information Technology.

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