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Thank you for attending the CosmoNote workshop. We look forward to launching the platform and seeing it grow and adopted by a large community of users who learn, annotate and share their passion for music.

These are some of our upcoming goals for the future:

Participation

After local and pilot tests, a worldwide launch will recruit users internationally who will contribute with their individual experiences and perceptions of musical structures in performed music.

Collections

Regular participants will be treated to new curated collections of recorded performances that focus on specific themes. We will inform you of what is coming soon.

Features

• Visualizing aggregated annotations: Participants will be able to find out how their annotations compare to those of their peers, once they have finished annotating a given collection. (Analysis of the data collected by CosmoNote will be covered on our live session on 5 May 2021.)
• Community building:
  • Collaborative annotations: We look forward to building the capacity for annotating together, remotely.
  • Citizen scientist moderators: As CosmoNote grows, the collaborators will take on more significant roles e.g. moderators.
• Translation of site into other languages: Support for more languages will make CosmoNote more inclusive for non-English speakers.
• The data we gather will help:
  • Democratize understanding of expressive music performance, e.g. what is the space of possible interpretations?
  • Improve analytical models of music expressivity and of music perception and cognition.
  • Form a basis for understanding musical creativity, musical communication, and music perception.

Further reading

• From data to wisdom (original article): In 1989, Russell Ackoff first described the hierarchical model of functional relationships between Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom, now known as the DIKW pyramid. Data represents what is studied and has no use until it is processed, thus becoming information. Knowledge arises from experience, context, and insight over the application of data and information. Wisdom is integrated knowledge that is finally useful to exercise judgment based on values. The DIKW pyramid teaches us that it is not enough to collect data but eventually transform it into wisdom.
• Tidy Data (article): It is important to keep data organized. The tidy-data model is useful for avoiding problems down the line. It is a system for correctly indexing data based on three rules: each variable is a column; each observation is a row; each type of observational unit is a table.

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