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Topology of Networks in Generalized Musical Spaces
Leonardo Music Journal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): Arts & Humanities Titles etc, In press. Publication date: December 2020The abstraction of musical structures (notes, melodies, chords, harmonic or rhythmic progressions, etc.) as mathematical objects in a geometrical space is one of the great accomplishments of contemporary music theory. Building on this foundation, I generalize the concept of musical spaces as networks and derive functional principles of compositional design 15 by the direct analysis of the network topology. This approach provides a novel framework for the analysis and quantification of similarity of musical objects and structures, and suggests a way to relate such measures to the human perception of different musical entities. Finally, the analysis of a single work or a corpus of compositions as complex networks provides alternative ways of interpreting the compositional process of a composer by quantifying emergent behaviors with 20 well-established statistical mechanics techniques. Interpreting the latter as probabilistic randomness in the network, I develop novel compositional design frameworks that are central to my own artistic research. One Sentence Summary: Network theory is an innovative tool for the classification of generalized musical spaces and provides a framework for the discovery or generation of functional 25 principles of compositional design
The hunt for submarines in classical art: mappings between scientific invention and artistic interpretation
This is a report to the AHRC's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme.
This report stems from a project which aimed to produce a series of mappings between advanced imaging information and communications technologies (ICT) and needs within visual arts research. A secondary aim was to demonstrate the feasibility of a structured approach to establishing such mappings.
The project was carried out over 2006, from January to December, by the visual arts centre of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS Visual Arts).1 It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as one of the Strategy Projects run under the aegis of its ICT in Arts and Humanities Research programme. The programme, which runs from October 2003 until September 2008, aims âto develop, promote and monitor the AHRCâs ICT strategy, and to build capacity nation-wide in the use of ICT for arts and humanities researchâ.2 As part of this, the Strategy Projects were intended to contribute to the programme in two ways: knowledge-gathering projects would inform the programmeâs Fundamental Strategic Review of ICT, conducted for the AHRC in the second half of 2006, focusing âon critical strategic issues such as e-science and peer-review of digital resourcesâ. Resource-development projects would âbuild tools and resources of broad relevance across the range of the AHRCâs academic subject disciplinesâ.3 This project fell into the knowledge-gathering strand.
The project ran under the leadership of Dr Mike Pringle, Director, AHDS Visual Arts, and the day-to-day management of Polly Christie, Projects Manager, AHDS Visual Arts. The research was carried out by Dr Rupert Shepherd
Visualising complex networks within humanities data for discovery and analysis
This paper describes the preliminary work leading to a project to build a web services visualisation
tool that addresses the multiâdimensional metadata used to describe cultural datasets, especially
those created by researchers to meet specific research ends. The project will utilise the Knalij service
developed by Steven Melnikoff (Information Physics, The University of Melbourne) together with
datasets curated using the eScholarship Research Centreâs Online Heritage Resource Manager
(OHRM) system. In the first instance it is proposed that the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and
the Australian Womenâs Register datasets be used to operationalise the tool. Using offline
visualisation tools, the study of both embedded and implied complex network structures within
standardsâbased Humanities datasets has revealed significant potential for analysis, navigation,
discovery, and the development of new research methods. In October 2011 Knalij was awarded the
USA challenge.gov prize for the most innovative uses of National Library of Medicine data. Knalij
offers an interactive web service that can visualise the whole of PubMed in real time. This is a
landmark achievement that opens up web services, realâtime visualisation capability for complex
Humanities datasets with both synchronic and diachronic variables. As noted in the Knalij press
release in October: âWe visualized the entirety of cancer research since 1800 and displayed the
progression through the decades. Our maps are searchable, interactive, and ready for researchers to
discover trends, patterns, and connections. This is the first time that anyone has visually displayed
the entire scope of cancer research in one searchable application. We are very excited to present this to the world'. The paper will focus on Australian Humanities researchâdriven datasets and explore a range of uses from project management and documentation to the revelation of novel insights and understandings.Australian Academy of the Humanities; the ANU College of Arts and Social Science
The structural role of the core literature in history
The intellectual landscapes of the humanities are mostly uncharted territory.
Little is known on the ways published research of humanist scholars defines
areas of intellectual activity. An open question relates to the structural role
of core literature: highly cited sources, naturally playing a disproportionate
role in the definition of intellectual landscapes. We introduce four indicators
in order to map the structural role played by core sources into connecting
different areas of the intellectual landscape of citing publications (i.e.
communities in the bibliographic coupling network). All indicators factor out
the influence of degree distributions by internalizing a null configuration
model. By considering several datasets focused on history, we show that two
distinct structural actions are performed by the core literature: a global one,
by connecting otherwise separated communities in the landscape, or a local one,
by rising connectivity within communities. In our study, the global action is
mainly performed by small sets of scholarly monographs, reference works and
primary sources, while the rest of the core, and especially most journal
articles, acts mostly locally
Data fluidity in DARIAH -- pushing the agenda forward
This paper provides both an update concerning the setting up of the European
DARIAH infrastructure and a series of strong action lines related to the
development of a data centred strategy for the humanities in the coming years.
In particular we tackle various aspect of data management: data hosting, the
setting up of a DARIAH seal of approval, the establishment of a charter between
cultural heritage institutions and scholars and finally a specific view on
certification mechanisms for data
The Scientific Competitiveness of Nations
We use citation data of scientific articles produced by individual nations in
different scientific domains to determine the structure and efficiency of
national research systems. We characterize the scientific fitness of each
nation (that is, the competitiveness of its research system) and the complexity
of each scientific domain by means of a non-linear iterative algorithm able to
assess quantitatively the advantage of scientific diversification. We find that
technological leading nations, beyond having the largest production of
scientific papers and the largest number of citations, do not specialize in a
few scientific domains. Rather, they diversify as much as possible their
research system. On the other side, less developed nations are competitive only
in scientific domains where also many other nations are present.
Diversification thus represents the key element that correlates with scientific
and technological competitiveness. A remarkable implication of this structure
of the scientific competition is that the scientific domains playing the role
of "markers" of national scientific competitiveness are those not necessarily
of high technological requirements, but rather addressing the most
"sophisticated" needs of the society
Enroller: an experiment in aggregating resources
This chapter describes a collaborative project between e-scientists and humanists working to create an online repository of linguistic data sets and tools. Corpora, dictionaries, and a thesaurus are brought together to enable a new method of research. It combines our most advanced knowledge in both computing and linguistic research techniques
Infrastructures for digital research: new opportunities and challenges
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Can a teaching university be an entrepreneurial university? Civic entrepreneurship and the formation of a cultural cluster in Ashland, Oregon
There has been debate over whether a teaching university can be an entrepreneurial university (Clark, 1998). In a traditional conception of academic entrepreneurship focused on achieving commercial profit, a research base may be a pre-requisite to creating spin-offs. However, if we expand entrepreneurship into a broader conception to map its different forms such as commercial, social, cultural and civic entrepreneurship, it is clear that the answer is positive. In this study, we focus on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), which has transformed a small town based on resource extraction, a market center and a rail-hub into a theatre arts and cultural cluster. The convergence of entrepreneurship, triple helix model, cluster and regional innovation theories, exemplified by the Ashland case, has provided a model as instructive as Silicon Valley, to seekers of a general theory and practice of regional innovation and entrepreneurship. The role of Southern Oregon University (SOU) in the inception of a cultural cluster gives rise to a model for education-focused universities to play a significant role in local economic development through civic entrepreneurship
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