Projects

Online Content Management System for Vienna Music Institutions (supported by the WWTF)

A major aim of the WWTF funded project is to built up an universally applicable content management system optimised for musicological topics with individually customisable input and output templates for connected partners like music publishers, archives, museums, labels etc. The focus group are scientist as well as non-university experts and music-interested laypersons.
The principal purpose of the WWTF funded project is to create an online accessible and editable, universally applicable content management system, where archives, collections, museums and musicological institutes can make their inventory accessible for other scientists in a user-friendly way as well as complex interlaced and key worded by musicological criteria. The focus group are scientist as well as non-university experts and music-interested laypersons.
The visitor gets access to interconnected information, pictures and sounds by different search algorithms. At the same time the conceptual fundamentals for the development of an online editable system, optimised for scientific materials, cooperations and applications, are founded by this project. For our profession this means an applied basic research within the area of music computer science and information architecture in questions about concept, usability and software requirements. Combined with it this means also a clarifying of copyright questions with online publications of fieldwork materials for example.

Already implemented parts of the project:

• www.schubert-online.at - a virtual collection of the autographs of Franz Schubert, at the same time a reference archiving and publication system for the presentation of digitised manuscripts on the internet.
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• Excursion database of the Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna (http://gerda.univie.ac.at/wwtf/exkursion/) - a content management system for the publication of materials resulting from music-ethnological excursions.
• Klangwelt Wien - parts of the collection of the Phonogrammarchiv - a virtual collection of selected sound materials of the Phonogrammarchiv within the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The CMS is fully functionable, but the content is not yet complete.