United, Linked, Connected – A Data Model forthe Inventory of the Former Detmold CourtTheatre (1825–1875), or: How Library InventoryHistory Can also Be Told

• Kristina Richts-Matthaei ^[1] ; Irmlind Capelle ^[1]
  1. [1] Paderborn University, Germany
• Localización: Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021, 19–22 July, 2021 University of Alicante (Spain): Onsite & Online / Stefan Münnich (dir. congr.), David Rizo Valero (dir. congr.), 2022, ISBN 978-84-1302-173-7, págs. 107-115
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  • Library forms of cataloging may differ greatly from the cataloging requirements of musicological researchprojects: They are often not detailed enough and do not take a close enough look at aspects of content relevant to research, such as handwritten entries in materials, etc. Library catalog entries of individual documentsstand on their own for historical reasons, but usually do not reflect relationships to other surviving materials.This observation was the starting point for the Detmold Court Theatre Project, a six-year research project (September 2014 – January 2021) that looked at the interconnectedness of different surviving materials of a 19thcentury theatre company that existed from 1825 to 1875. This project dealt with a very detailed form of inventory indexing in order to hand over and make accessible the formerly related materials in their entirety. Thisform of indexing was called ‘contextual deep indexing’. This special form of indexing took into account not onlythe pure performance materials but also the surviving theatre files, such as fee books, revenue and expensedocuments, stock lists, director’s books, role and costume books, etc. All information was recorded based onautopsy (in the case of musical records on the basis of already existing RISM records from the 1980s). It wasthe first attempt to carry out such a form of indexing on the basis of the MEI and TEI encoding standards fora large repertory. For this purpose, a data model was needed that focuses on the linking of MEI and TEI dataand enables the linking of different surviving library holdings, with a focus on a FRBR-based indexing of performance materials and associated performers as well as the structure of the theatre. Using a custom ODD-basedschema, separate records were created for all works, expressions, and manifestations (in this case preservingthe unity of materials kept under a common signature) and given unique identifiers so that they can now allbe referenced individually.The paper summarizes the results of this pilot project. It addresses the particularities and requirements ofan inventory development that does not focus on individual objects, but on the relationship between differentobjects (and subjects). It presents a document-oriented (not object-oriented) data model that uses library materials to revive an entire network of a long-gone organization