Partner Projects
The Motet Database
Professor Thomas Schmidt-Beste, University of Wales, Bangor
This is a long-standing project designed to create comprehensive lists of motets in the 15th- and early 16th-century repertory with full text transcriptions and newly created diplomatic incipits using the CMME software (see below). The project database merged with the DIAMM database during 2007. During 2008-2009, DIAMM users will be given access to the new incipits and text transcriptions through this website.
The Online Chopin Variorum Edition (OCVE) and Chopin First Editions Online (CFEO)
Both these projects are headed by Prof John Rink of the Music Department, Royal Holloway. The Chopin projects are complementary to DIAMM since the same development teams are working on our web resources, and we have found many synergies between the two projects, both of which are concerned with gathering a collection of electronic images of sources from a wide variety of repositories and offering them for use in an online study environment.
Jena University Library - Jena Choirbooks project
The University Library of Jena holds an exceptional collection of very large format medieval choirbooks. With the support of DIAMM as consultants these choirbooks will be digitized and made available using Jena’s library content management system, but also via the DIAMM website. We are very grateful to Jena for the opportunity of collaborating on such a major digitization project.
(CMME) Computerized Mensural Music Editing
Dr Theodor Dumitrescu, University of Utrecht
New early music encoding software developed by Dr Dumitrescu will allow DIAMM and associated projects to encode early music using original notation in xml code that will allow it to be displayed in other notational forms, and eventually to become searchable. This is a major step forward in music encoding and we are grateful to Dr Dumitrescu for making his software available to us. The project includes a simple database of works that are encoded already, or are to be encoded, and this will merge with DIAMM during 2007.
Die Musik des Trecento
Dr Oliver Huck, University of Hamburg (formerly Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
A database of Trecento music allowing complex searchability. The content will be merging with the DIAMM database during 2007-2008, and DIAMM will be adopting some of the search facilities engineered for this project.
Peterhouse Cambridge
Dr Scott Mandelbrote and the Fellows of Peterhouse: digitization of the Peterhouse Partbooks, jointly funded by DIAMM and Peterhouse; images to go online through DIAMM and Peterhouse website
Jane Austen Manuscripts Online
Professor Kathryn Sutherland, St. Anne's College, Oxford.
Digitisation of Austen manuscripts. The project's technical team is at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities.
The Lancelot-Graal Project
Professor Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh
Four major Graal MSS in England, France and the Netherlands have been photographed by DIAMM to facilitate close and detailed study of the illuminations.
British Academy/Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters - The Revised Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters
Prof Simon Keynes and Dr Rebecca Rushforth, University of Cambridge
Anglo-Saxon Charters in Canterbury, Exeter and Taunton were photographed by DIAMM to allow the project to make closer study of the documents, and restore damage where necessary.
The Arundel Choirbook
Dr David Skinner, Magdalen College, Oxford; The Duke of Norfolk
Lambeth Palace MS 1 was photographed by DIAMM to enable a luxurious colour facsimile to be produced as a recent Roxburgh Club publication.
The Hikone Music Scroll, Hikone Castle Museum
Dr Karl Kuegle, Mr Yuanzheng Yang, University of Hong Kong; Dr Hing Yan Chan
Photography of the Hikone MS in Japan is being undertaken by DIAMM with financial assistance from the University of Hong Kong
The Hikone MS is the only scroll of Qin music predating the fourteenth century that has not suffered any modern accretions. The manuscript is in a moderately poor state, so the photography has a preservation purpose, but will also broaden access to a MS that is generally not available for study.
The Becket Project (Faculty of Music, University of Toronto) - www.becket.ca
Professor Andrew Hughes (Toronto); Mr Matthew Salisbury (Oxford)
Digitisation of the only extant antiphonal associated with the liturgical use of York, Arundel Castle archives s.n., contributing to the study of versified offices. The Project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Clarendon edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes
Digitization of Oxford, St John's College MS 13 (Hobbes' Behemoth).
Nottingham University Library
Digitization of The Wollaton Antiphonal while it is disbound for restoration.
Marcher Apple Network
Digitization of the Herefordshire Pomona.
University of Pittsburgh, Music Department
Digitization of Stephen Foster's Sketchbook.
University of Lancaster - Quakers in North-West England and the Politics of Space, 1652-3
Digitization of documents in the library of Friends House in London.