Music DH 2021: A Directory of Digital Scholarship in Music

Abstract

Music DH 2021: A Directory of Digital Scholarship in Music (hereafter Music DH) (https://rutgersdh.github.io/musicdh/) represents the work of a collaborative project of the Digital Humanities Interest Group of the Music Library Association. Librarians and scholars, many of whom have experience either creating or supporting digital humanities work, collected, collated, and catalogued more than 200 projects that now comprise Music DH. Since its launch in 2021, it has been maintained by Francesca Giannetti, who is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Rutgers University and the Co-Director of the Rutgers Digital Humanities Institute. The Sources page in the site acknowledges, however, that Giannetti is standingon the shouldersof giants in championingMusicDH.Thisproject grew inpart out of existingbibliographies that cataloguedigital projects related to musical topics. The directory platform itself also leans heavily on designs used in other digital scholarship websites. The clear acknowledgement of collaboration and antecedents is in keepingwith the spirit of born-digital scholarship: it takes a village to conceive, launch and support born-digital work. For anyone seeking to expand research based in traditional publication formats, Music DH should be a first stop on the way to augmenting both primary source and secondary research. It is currently the only open-access directory of digital resources that specializes in musical scholarship where each of the indexed items are catalogued with a standardized and searchable bibliographic record.