Description
This seminar focuses on the dual management of physical and digital documents in relation to music and musicology. Basic archival terminology and the history, nature, categories and use of documents are reviewed. In addition, the archival tasks for the acquisition, classification, description, indexing, maintenance and display of documents are taught through practice in archival material.
Regarding digital sources, issues such as digital libraries and repositories, data modeling through ontologies, methods of ensuring interoperability and accessibility, and digital preservation are considered.
The skills developed by the students are put into practice through the use of the "Polymnia" digital repository which operates in the Laboratory for the Study of Hellenic Music.
Finally, the basic principles of research methodology are examined, with special reference to the discipline of musicology.