2023-10-11 –, News Room
Polifonia, a Horizon 2020 Programme, aims to highlight the implicit knowledge linking musical heritage to wider cultural heritage (including tangible assets), to engage both the general public and music domain experts in a consistent environment. The project uses novel data science methods (LOD, KG, ML/AI) to extract information on music patterns and music object intrinsic features to enrich musical heritage knowledge graphs. Polifonia also holds a stakeholder network consisting of experts within musicology, cultural heritage, public institutes and the music industry, in order to ensure reuse of the project’s output for different end users.
This session will highlight two pilots from the project:
The BELLS pilot aims to provide tools and methods through which Italian historical bells heritage can be better known and put in relation to other parts of cultural heritage. The final interface will enable users to navigate through the connections between bells sound, tangible heritage (bells, bell towers) and intangible heritage (sound practices, oral transmission of knowledge among communities and bearers of tradition).
The history of pipe organs is rich and diverse, and highly interrelated to economic, religious and artistic contexts. In the ORGANS pilot, a knowledge graph will be assembled that contains information about the histories and characteristics of all important historic organs in the Netherlands. The data will be a valuable resource of knowledge on Dutch organs, used by music historians, organ advisors, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, organ builders and the general public.
