In the grant proposal for Transforming Musicology we committed to the production of a
book covering the research undertaken in the project in some depth. As envisaged then,
it was to have been a conventional publication, with an online version offering a degree
of extra linkage and embedding some digital material. This was modelled on the notion
of preparing traditional scholarship for Web publication. However, with much of our
data, methods and findings now published as Linked Data, our emphasis has shifted
sharply towards online presentation as our primary outlet, with a summary print
publication. This requires us to design an information architecture accommodating the
needs of scholarly music publishing, and to work out an authoring strategy, ideally one
involving TEI, and an editing strategy resulting in high quality hypertext. This allows us
to embed and link dynamic music examples by using the TEI-compatible Music Encoding
Initiative (MEI). For example, rather than static music examples, we can display extracts
from complete scores as examples, and allow users to select a passage as a query to an
MIR system. Another possibility that comprehensive markup allows is curating dynamic
reading paths for different readerships. The content must be edited into re-combinable
chunks, each carrying information about how they may be re-combined. Reading paths
might include: a research findings report on Transforming Musicology; a handbook on
digital musicology methods; a focussed discussion of a particular digital methods; or an
authorial/editorial reading path (as in a conventional book). In this way we shall widen
access to broader audiences by allowing readership interactions such as annotating or
commenting, or crowd-source-like contributions to our (meta)data sets. We shall also
build reading paths suited to lay audiences, opening musicology to scientists and
engineers interested in music, and also offering a palatable way into advanced digital
technology for musicologists and musicians.