Practicalities of Corpus Building: Creating and exploring digital data

Abstract

In this panel, we present a number of approaches to the creation of music corpora, using manual and fullyand partially-automated methods, and we consider the effects these approaches have on the nature, size and data encoding of the respective collections We also explore how the process is affected by the nature of the source materials used. We illustrate the impact of these approaches for later use, such as simple web or paper publication or searching and analyzing the newly-available musical information.