Transforming Musicology

API

One of the key objectives of Transforming Musicology is to improve existing—and to develop new—provisions for publishing musical data online. This will involve extending existing ontologies for describing musical concepts, specifying new ontologies, and making some specific data sets available. Many of the applications with which we will be experimenting throughout the course of the project will rely on this infrastructure.

To enable this, we intend to develop a Web-accessible applications programming interface (API) which will provide core musical functionality across project applications and which will, in future, be available for use by new applications developed outside the scope of the current project.