Pugin, Laurent XavierLaurent XavierPugin0000-0002-9525-43312024-10-262024-10-262020-05https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/175976The book explores the challenges of handling digital data in musicology, particularly focusing on music sources. It investigates the specific aspects of musicology and these documents, which directly affect the creation, organization, and accessibility of digital data in the field. It discusses the need to structure and organize data effectively, especially considering that many resources used by musicologists pre-date the digital era, such as music inventories. The transition of these resources into the digital domain raises questions about extension, access, enrichment, and maintenance. Additionally, the representation of music notation in the digital realm is addressed, emphasizing the importance of structuring music notation data to meet modern research needs like open-data and sustainability. The book highlights the role of MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) in addressing these challenges, enabling detailed approaches in musicology and facilitating the representation of rich and complex datasets. It explores how data structuring evolves into knowledge representation, with critical editions serving as an example of this paradigm shift. The book does not serve as a handbook on music encoding or digital edition development but rather aims to initiate discussions on these topics based on experiences from research projects and infrastructure management. It underscores the importance of developing tools alongside data creation and structuring. Ultimately, it suggests that managing digital data in musicology will evolve into managing data in digital musicology, emphasizing the need for long-term perspectives in handling both data and tools.en700 - Arts::780 - Music000 - Computer science, knowledge & systems100 - Philosophy800 - Literature, rhetoric & criticism900 - Historythesis10.48350/194934