Documenting a song culture: the Dutch Song Database as a resource for musicological research. van Kranenburg, P., de Bruin, M., & Volk, A. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 20(1):13–23, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2017.
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The Dutch Song Database is a digital repository documenting Dutch song culture in past and present. It contains more than 173 thousand references to song occurrences in the Dutch and Flemish language, from the Middle Ages up to the present, as well as over 18 thousand descriptions of song sources, such as song books, manuscripts and field recordings, all adhering to high quality standards. In this paper, we present the history and functionality of the database, and we demonstrate how the Dutch Song Database facilitates and enables musicological research by presenting its contents and search functionalities in a number of exemplary cases. We discuss difficulties and impediments that were encountered during the development of the database, and we sketch a future prospect for further development in the European context.
@Article{          kranenburg.ea2017-documenting,
    author       = {van Kranenburg, Peter and de Bruin, Martine and Volk,
                   Anja},
    year         = {2017},
    title        = {Documenting a song culture: the Dutch Song Database as a
                   resource for musicological research},
    abstract     = {The Dutch Song Database is a digital repository
                   documenting Dutch song culture in past and present. It
                   contains more than 173 thousand references to song
                   occurrences in the Dutch and Flemish language, from the
                   Middle Ages up to the present, as well as over 18 thousand
                   descriptions of song sources, such as song books,
                   manuscripts and field recordings, all adhering to high
                   quality standards. In this paper, we present the history
                   and functionality of the database, and we demonstrate how
                   the Dutch Song Database facilitates and enables
                   musicological research by presenting its contents and
                   search functionalities in a number of exemplary cases. We
                   discuss difficulties and impediments that were encountered
                   during the development of the database, and we sketch a
                   future prospect for further development in the European
                   context.},
    doi          = {10.1007/s00799-017-0228-4},
    issn         = {14321300},
    journal      = {International Journal on Digital Libraries},
    keywords     = {Database,Dutch song culture,History,Information
                   retrieval,Literature,Metadata,Musicology,computational
                   musicology},
    mendeley-tags= {computational musicology},
    number       = {1},
    pages        = {13--23},
    publisher    = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
    volume       = {20}
}

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