fedezubo / music-scholars-annotator

A tool for creating annotations of musical scores

TROMPA Music Scholars Annotator application demo

Introduction

This repository contains a minimal example React application integrating the TROMPA selectable-score React component and is an expanded version of the selectable-score-demo. To run it, clone this repository, then:

cd music-scholars-annotator
npm install
npm start

Now point your web browser at https://localhost:8080. Wait a few moments for the solid login prompt, insert your crendentials and then let Verovio render the score.

Click and drag to select MEI elements (either notes or measures in this example); hold down shift or ctrl to select discontinuous regions. The app lets you insert your annotation comments, choose what type of annotation you would like to insert (either a URI link or a plain text comment) and then POST them to your solid pod annotation.

Known issues

Paging is currently very slow. We're working on improving this, through MELD optimisations and potentially by running Verovio as a Web Worker (work in progress!)

Currently the app POSTs annotaion to your public/ solid pod folder. In the near future it will create pertinent folders if they are not present, such as trompa/annotation/mahler or something similar.

Further reading

For more information on TROMPA see the TROMPA website and the following paper:

• DLfM 2019 overview paper on TROMPA

For more information on MELD see the MELD metarepository and these papers:

• ISMIR 2017 paper on distributed annotation of musical score

• DLfM 2018 paper on publishing musicology using MELD

• DLfM 2019 paper on annotating musicological observations using MELD