Popular Music of World War I
- Submitting institution
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University of York
: A - A - Music
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A - Music
- Output identifier
- 67322360
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Newberry Library in Chicago; https://wfbrooks.works/blog/wwi-sheet-music-archive/
- Open access status
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- Month
- December
- Year
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output has involved collection and analysis of a vast quantity of American sheet music from World War I. The submission references 2654 items, each archived with metadata developed through scholarly investigation so as to provide multiple relational links and hence uses. The project represents a long-term research effort, with the first digitisation in 2014 and the majority of the work running 2015-2020. The establishing of the relational links is where the most substantial scholarly effort is located: this is complex, representing an enquiry of extended scope and depth as well as scale.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The research project _Popular Music of World War I: A Living Archive_ comprises digitised archives of sheet music created from collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (the James Edward Myers Collection) and the Newberry Library in Chicago (the James Francis Driscoll Collection). Those are accessed at https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/692ae4c0-c09b-0134-2371-0050569601ca-6 and https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/e5ad80f0-8529-0135-01fc-0050569601ca-e.
However, it is a living archive because all the pages are constantly being revised and updated as research continues: underpinning the research project, methodology, and the approach to digitization was the avoidance of the concept of publication in any ‘final’ form.
The archives are too huge to be downloaded as an archived version of the websites. Therefore, to comply with the REF publication deadline, all the pages have been archived as pdfs as of 31 December 2020. The submission comprises: i) a brief explanatory document, produced specifically for the REF submission, to clarify the submitted components, how to navigate them, and their relationship to the dynamic web archives; ii) the more detailed overview of and user guide to the living archive research (which includes the project aims, history, and clarification of the author’s role), written by the author, published at https://wfbrooks.works/blog/wwi-sheet-music-archive/ and provided here as a downloaded pdf; iii) the ‘dead-archived’ digitised copies of the two sets (934 and 1,720 pieces) of sheet music (the number of pieces as of the REF deadline). The latter are provided as a set of screenshots and as an IIIF manifest, not as html code and/or source images.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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