Title: A digital platform for musicology and performance: connecting Greek music heritage archives

Authors: Evangelia Spyrakou; Petros Vouvaris; Evgenios Politis

Addresses: Department of Music Science and Art, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece ' Department of Music Science and Art, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece ' Department of Music Science and Art, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece

Abstract: The MELOS (Greek Music Audio-visual Collections) project represents an innovative initiative to interconnect and organise the knowledge repositories of three prominent Greek music archives. Funded by the EU through Greece's National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2.0, this project integrates diverse materials, such as musical scores, recordings, and posters, into a unified digital platform. Using the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model, metadata from the Mikis Theodorakis Archive, the Greek Double Bass Archive and the Vasilis Tsitsanis Collection are being structured into distinct musical ontologies and incorporated into an open-source ontology management system (Reasonable Graph platform). This network of over 10,500 musical entities is designed to enhance access for scholars, researchers and the public. The paper will showcase MELOS tools that facilitate navigation and retrieval and discuss the project's impact on the historiography and multifaceted study of Greek musical heritage.

Keywords: Greek music heritage; digital archives; ontology management; semantic web; FRBR model; audio-visual collections; metadata; historical musicology; cultural heritage preservation; digital humanities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2024.145529

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2024 Vol.17 No.1, pp.60 - 78

Received: 14 Sep 2024
Accepted: 26 Oct 2024
Published online: 02 Apr 2025 *

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