Centre for Digital Music Documen­tation

The Centre for Digital Music Documentation (CDMD) serves as a specialist point of contact for all digital aspects of musicological projects within the Academies Programme, the research programme of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities funded by the federal and state governments. It has been under continuous development since 2021 and is clearly focused on processes, technologies and infrastructures in the context of the digital transformation of basic musicological research. In doing so, the CDMD works in close cooperation with the NFDI4Culture consortium within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), the Centre for Music – Edition – Media (ZenMEM) at the University of Paderborn, the Saxon State Library – State and University Library (SLUB) and other infrastructure and memory institutions engaged in the field of digital musicology. Through its direct link to the Digital Academy, which has existed since 2009 at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz as a research department for digital humanities, the CDMD can draw on a wealth of long-standing experience in the use of digital research methods and technologies. In close collaboration, the CDMD is establishing a focus on the transfer of musicological research data into digital formats. Particular emphasis is placed on establishing long-term and sustainable infrastructure services, the digital processing and modelling of research data in accordance with specific quality and sustainability criteria, and ensuring its long-term availability.