2017DH-antiphoner


The	Burns	Antiphoner–From	manuscript	to	
interactive	resource

Anna	Kijas

Boston	College	
DH	2017	|	MONTREAL,	CANADA

August	9,	2017



Burns	Antiphoner,	http://burnsantiphoner.bc.edu/.	



Project	Partners
Project	Team:	
• Primary	Investigator	and	Researcher:	Dr.	Michael	Noone (Morrissey	College	of	Arts	and	

Sciences)
• Project	Manager	and	Development:	Anna	Kijas	(Digital	Scholarship	Group,	O’Neill	

Library)
• Project	Assistant:	Jonathan	Mott	(June	– August	2015;	Music	undergraduate)
• Research	and	editorial:	Dr.	Graeme	Skinner	(University	of	Sydney)
• Web	Application	Development:	Ben	Florin	(Systems,	O’Neill	Library)	

External	Consultants	&	Partners:	
• CANTUS	Database	Developer:	Jan	Koláček (Prague,	Czech	Republic)	
• K&M	Productions

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This	project	received	expertise	and	support	from	Digital	Scholarship,	Digital	Library	
Programs,	Special	Collections,	and	Systems	&	Applications	at	the	Boston	College	
Libraries. We	would	like	to	thank	the	following	individuals	who	were	consulted	during	the	
development	of	this	project:	Andrew	Hankinson	(McGill	University) Diva.js Developer	and	
Debra	Lacoste	(University	of	Waterloo) CANTUS Project	Manager.



Burns	Antiphoner

Burns	Antiphoner,	http://burnsantiphoner.bc.edu/.	



Franciscan	Antiphoner.	John	J.	Burns	Library,		http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2231.		

14th century Franciscan Antiphoner



Daily	office	services

Michael	Noone,	”Novice’s	Guide,”	Burns	Antiphoner.	http://burnsantiphoner.bc.edu/novices-guide/.	



Example	of	palimpsest

Franciscan	Antiphoner,	Folio	21r.



Franciscan	Antiphoner,	Folio	89v.

Brief	passage	of	written	polyphony	in	the	opening	of	the	
sequence	Celi solem imitantes.



“Der	ander nocturnus”	
written	in	German

Franciscan	Antiphoner,	Folio	7r.	



Manuscripts	for	Pleasure	and	Piety	exhibit	at	the	McMullen	Museum.	September	12	– December	11,	
2016.	http://beyondwords2016.org/.



Contents	by	Liturgical	Occasion



AntiphonerInventory

Inventory	identifies	846	incipits	(Snapshot	view)



Project	Goals

1) Develop	an	interactive,	open	access	and	responsive	website	
with	a	searchable	database	and	dynamic	presentation	layer;

2) Use	and	develop	open	source	technology;	

3) Contribute	our	data	to	the	scholarly	community	through	a	
collaboration	with	CANTUS;	and	

4) Develop	software,	workflows,	and	documentation	that	can	
inform	future	projects	using	similar	technologies.

Timeframe:	June	2015	- August	2016	



Metadata	Record

Metadata	record	for	Franciscan	Antiphoner,	http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2231.	



Digitized	Franciscan	Antiphoner,	http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2231.	



Tech	Workflow



Incipit	encoding	using	MEI	elements	in	Neume Module



Structure	and	Semantics	of	Neumes



CANTUS	Manuscript	Database	

CANTUS	Manuscript	Database:	http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/



Top:	CANTUS	
fields.

Bottom:	CANTUS	
fields	continued	
across	spreadsheet



Incipit	Record	in	CANTUS	

Unus ex	duobus qui	secuti…	http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/chant/152021.		



“Obtulerunt pro	eo domino”

Example	of	where	duplicate	
incipit	text	merged	into	one	
string



Verovio

Verovio:	http://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml.			



Diva.js

Diva.js,	https://ddmal.github.io/diva.js/.	



https://github.com/BCDigSchol/antiphoner-site/blob/master/view/antiphoner-data.json

JSON	output	from	inventory/incipit	
data	(snapshot)	



The	Burns	Antiphoner in	Action

Burns	Antiphoner,	http://burnsantiphoner.bc.edu/.	



AntiphonerData



AntiphonerData	with	Performance



Search	Interface



Search	Interface



Resources
Boston	College	Libraries
• Burns	Antiphoner:	http://burnsantiphoner.bc.edu/	
• Digital	Scholarship	Group:	http://ds.bc.edu
• GitHub:	https://github.com/BCDigSchol/antiphoner-site

CANTUS	Database
• Tutorial	for	Cantus	contributors:	http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/tutorial

Diva.js
• Full	documentation:	https://github.com/DDMAL/diva.js/wiki
• Other	tools	from	DDMAL:	https://github.com/DDMAL

MEI
• Full	guidelines:	http://music-encoding.org/?page_id=160
• Schemas,	Customizations,	XSLT	stylesheets:	https://github.com/music-encoding/music-

encoding

Verovio
• Documentation	and	Viewer:	http://www.verovio.org/index.xhtml



Contact Information

Anna Kijas
Digital Scholarship Librarian

Boston College

http://ds.bc.edu
Email: kijas@bc.edu
Twitter: @anna_kijas