Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Music, Drama and Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies

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Case Studies

UKRN case study: Performing arts and digital humanities

University of Leeds School of Music case study: The Garden of Forking Paths: material-indeterminacy driving open-form composition for clarinets with Scott McLaughlin

Examples of open research practices

Open Data: “MusicLab is an innovation project by RITMO (http://www.uio.no/ritmo) and the University Library (http://ub.uio.no/). The aim is to explore new methods for conducting research, research communication and education. The project is organized around events: a concert in a public venue, which is also the object of study. The events also contain an edutainment element through panel discussions with world-leading researchers and artists, as well ‘data jockeying’ in the form of live data analysis of recorded data.” This up-and-coming project namely merges the study of music with physiology using various types of technologies measuring bodily responses. All resources (including data findings) are fully free and available to everyone due to the project’s aims of exploring Open Science within research and research-based education.

(https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/news-and-events/events/musiclab/)

Resources

General Resources

Podcast on how music research can be made more open. https://www.arj.no/2020/01/09/podcast-on-open-research

Open Methods

Paper on a new open-source application for musical recording analysis. Cannam, C., Landone, C., and Sandler, M. (2010). Sonic visualiser: an open-source application for viewing, analysing, and annotating music audio files. Association for Computing Machinery, 1467-1468. https://doi.org/10.1145/1873951.1874248

Open Data

Resource facilitating music data reusability. http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/
Musicology resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Musicology
Media Studies resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Media%2520Studies
Theatre Studies resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Theatre%2520Studies

Open Outputs

Open film studies preprint archive. https://mediarxiv.org
Performing arts journal. https://cnu.edu/jpalhe/
Performing arts digital books. https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=subject&cpId=7&uiLanguage=en
Musical performance journal. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/ppr/

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb