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What sources for early music remain undiscovered? What sources are currently under threat? A preliminary inventory of neglected collections and corpora (i.e. sources not in usual catalogues) will be compiled in order to identify points of action, particularly with regard to collections under threat. The task will be conducted at the national level, especially checking the online catalogues, and collating the results. The work will stimulate recovery of European music heritage and the process to catalogue, preserve / digitize, study, perform and disseminate this new / forgotten repertoire.
- To create a dialogue between currently heterogeneous resources either because they were built on different corpora (from Byzantine chant to 18th century opera); or because they are intended to enhance and protect fragile or inaccessible heritage (sources, editions, recordings), or because they promote the visibility of achievements (artistic projects).
- Develop ontological models not only from the point of view of the musicologist according to the current requirements of the digital humanities, but also in the capacity to meet the metadata needs of publishing or broadcasting platforms as well as different musical systems.
- Build an approach to the musical phenomenon based on a corpus of early music that is certainly vast but manageable, in order to envisage other modes of relationship than that between performer/spectator, platform/listener, professional/amateur.
- Establish a coordinated plan for discovering and documenting (threatened) sources, particularly those located in ITCs.
- Think about the automated mining of musical data, primarily symbolic (digital scores), in connection with audio.