RIPM: A Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1760–1966)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Estelle Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
It Use ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Electronic Access ◽  
Text Searching

RIPM (Le Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale) is widely regarded as the most comprehensive resource offering electronic access to music periodicals from the early Romantic era to the twentieth century. Founded in 1980 by H. Robert Cohen, RIPM is the youngest of the so-called ‘4 R's of International Music Research’; its partner initiatives include RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales), RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale), and RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale). Cohen's ambitious project was notably visionary in its use of technology: not only did it use computing from the start (beginning with DOS-based indexing systems), but it was also the first of the 4 R's to explore full text searching. RIPM seeks to address ‘two main problems that have prevented these [historic music] journals from being systematically collected and examined: (1) the limited number of libraries possessing the journals, and (2) the difficulty encountered when one attempts to locate specific information within an available source’. The project has thus focused on collection building, curation, indexing and accessibility. This international cooperative's accomplishments are impressive: as of July 2020, the database contains 527 music periodicals, 430 available in full text complete runs, totalling 996,000 annotated records and 1.47 million full-text pages of music periodicals.

Queering Musical Biography in the Writings of Edward Prime-Stevenson and Rosa Newmarch

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-118
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Franseen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Benjamin Britten ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Symphonic Music ◽  
Biographical Knowledge

Beginning with the “open secret” of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears's relationship and continuing through debates over Handel's and Schubert's sexuality and analyses of Ethel Smyth's memoirs, biography has played a central role in the development of queer musicology. At the same time, life-writing's focus on extramusical details and engagement with difficult-to-substantiate anecdotes and rumors often seem suspect to scholars. In the case of early-twentieth-century music research, however, these very gaps and ambiguities paradoxically offered some authors and readers at the time rare spaces for approaching questions of sexuality in music. Issues of subjectivity in instrumental music aligned well with rumors about autobiographical confession within Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) for those who knew how to listen and read between the lines. This article considers the different ways in which the framing of biographical anecdotes and gossip in scholarship by music critic-turned-amateur sexologist Edward Prime-Stevenson and Tchaikovsky scholar Rosa Newmarch allowed for queer readings of symphonic music. It evaluates Prime-Stevenson's discussions of musical biography and interpretation in The Intersexes (1908/9) and Newmarch's Tchaikovsky: His Life and Works (1900), translation of Modest Tchaikovsky's biography, and article on the composer in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians to explore how they addressed potentially taboo topics, engaged with formal and informal sources of biographical knowledge (including one another's work), and found their scholarly voices in the absence of academic frameworks for addressing gender and sexuality. While their overt goals were quite different—Newmarch sought to dismiss “sensationalist” rumors about Tchaikovsky's death for a broad readership, while Prime-Stevenson used queer musical gossip as a primary source in his self-published history of homosexuality—both grappled with questions of what can and cannot be read into a composer's life and works and how to relate to possible queer meanings in symphonic music. The very aspects of biography that place it in a precarious position as scholarship ultimately reveal a great deal about the history of musicology and those who write it.

scholarly journals Infrastructure for e-testing

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goce Armenski ◽  
Marjan Gusev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
It Use ◽  
Student Knowledge ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Testing Tool ◽  
New Challenges

The characteristics of the society in which we live, where knowledge and the ways of its use are the most important in everyday life, brings new challenges for higher education. The extensive use of technology in learning and working is forcing its use in the assessment process. A lot of software packages exist in the market to realize automated assessment. In this article we analyze different methods used for testing and present new frontiers, especially in cases where the number of students is very big (several hundreds), and in cases in which students can take exams every month. Using the results from this analysis we have designed and developed a new assessment system. We also give a report of the results from using e-testing tool for assessment of student knowledge, concentrating on the effectiveness of it use for assessment purposes.

The history and scope of neuropsychiatry

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Michael Trimble
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
Limbic System ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
The Brain

This chapter discusses the clinical necessity from which the intersection of neurology and psychiatry arose, exploring different eras and their associated intellectual milestones in order to understand the historical framework of contemporary neuropsychiatry. Identifying Hippocrates’ original acknowledgement of the relation of the human brain to epilepsy as a start point, the historical development of the field is traced. This encompasses Thomas Willis and his nascent descriptions of the limbic system, the philosophical and alchemical strides of the Enlightenment, and the motivations behind the Romantic era attempts to understand the brain. It then follows the growth of the field through the turn of the twentieth century, in spite of the prominence of psychoanalysis and the idea of the brainless mind, and finally the understanding of the ‘integrated action’ of the body and nervous system, which led to the integration of psychiatry and neurology, allowing for the first neuropsychiatric examinations of epilepsy.

Signature Files and Signature File Construction

2005 ◽  
pp. 638-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangjun Chen ◽  
Yong Shi
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Database Index ◽  
B Trees ◽  
Structure Index ◽  
Representation Structure ◽  
Text Searching ◽  
Signature Files

An important question in information retrieval is how to create a database index which can be searched efficiently for the data one seeks. Today, one or more of the following four techniques have been frequently used: full text searching, B-trees, inversion, and the signature file. Full text searching imposes no space overhead but requires long response time. In contrast, B-trees, inversion, and the signature file work quickl, but need a large intermediary representation structure (index), which provides direct links to relevant data. In this paper, we concentrate on the techniques of signature files and discuss different construction approaches of a signature file.

scholarly journals Measuring the Extent of the Synonym Problem in Full-Text Searching

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Beall ◽  
Karen Kafadar
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Full Text ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Common Term ◽  
Information Retrieval Systems ◽  
Search Field ◽  
Text Searching ◽  
Very High

Objective – This article measures the extent of the synonym problem in full-text searching. The synonym problem occurs when a search misses documents because the search was based on a synonym and not on a more familiar term. Methods – We considered a sample of 90 single word synonym pairs and searched for each word in the pair, both singly and jointly, in the Yahoo! database. We determined the number of web sites that were missed when only one but not the other term was included in the search field. Results – Depending upon how common the usage is of the synonym, the percentage of missed web sites can vary from almost 0% to almost 100%. When the search uses a very uncommon synonym ("diaconate"), a very high percentage of web pages can be missed (95%), versus the search using the more common term (only 9% are missed when searching web pages for the term "deacons"). If both terms in a word pair were nearly equal in usage ("cooks" and "chefs"), then a search on one term but not the other missed almost half the relevant web pages. Conclusion – Our results indicate great value for search engines to incorporate automatic synonym searching not only for user-specified terms but also for high usage synonyms. Moreover, the results demonstrate the value of information retrieval systems that use controlled vocabularies and cross references to generate search results.

scholarly journals Designing web-scale discovery systems using the VuFind open source software

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijan Kumar Roy ◽  
Subal Chandra Biswas ◽  
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Discovery System ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
One Stop ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Text Searching ◽  
Software Standards

Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of the emergence of resource discovery systems and services along with their advantages and best practices including current landscapes. It reports the development of a resource discovery system by using the “VuFind” software and describes other technological tools, software, standards and protocols required for the development of the prototype. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes the process of integrating VuFind (resource discovery tool) with Koha (integrated library system), DSpace (repository software) and Apache Tika (as full-text extractor for full-text searching), etc. Findings The proposed model performs like other existing commercial and open source Web-scale resource discovery systems and is capable of harvesting resources from different subscribed or external sources replacing a library’s OPAC. Originality/value This discovery system is an important add-on to designing a one-stop access in place of the existing retrieval silos in libraries. This system is capable of indexing a variety of content within and beyond library collections. This work may help library professionals and administrators in designing their discovery system, as well as vendors to improve their products, to provide different library-friendly services.

Music

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip V. Bohlman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Jewish Practice

The growth of Jewish studies has made it possible to talk about Jewish music in entirely new and even radically different ways. Since the 1970s, the study of music has developed as one of the most productive areas of research in Jewish studies itself, and since the early 1990s discussions about Jewish music have assumed a position as one of the most challenging arenas for research and debate in musicology and ethnomusicology. For the purposes of this article, the subdisciplines and subfields of musical scholarship that have entered into productive dialogue with Jewish studies are included under the larger disciplinary umbrella of ‘Jewish music research’. The shift from Judaism and Jewish practice to music and musical practice has unfolded slowly during a period of about two centuries, but accelerated rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century, during which Jewish music research has virtually exploded.

scholarly journals Integrating GPCR-specific information with full text articles

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas Vroling ◽  
David Thorne ◽  
Philip McDermott ◽  
Teresa K Attwood ◽  
Gert Vriend ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Specific Information
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