Translations:De beschrijving van muziekinstrumenten. De collectie van Stichting Logos als case/34/en

• We can make all documentation accessible to the public as part of the description via the website;
• The collection is made accessible to target audiences of non-experts (e.g. art teachers from the Municipal Academy Bruges DKO) in a different way, by experimenting with an alternative system of keywords on the website. Discovering alternative connections between the instruments is central to this;
• Carmentis offers the possibility to click and browse freely between instruments via the underlying standard terminologies (thesauri). As a user, you can quickly find similar objects for a certain instrument via the object name, instrument classification code, maker, date or materials used. Some of these methods are less relevant in the context of the Logos collection (the builder – because all the same; materials – because almost every instrument is an inextricable combination of materials). To offer greater accessibility, we felt we needed a keyword system that makes it possible to search the instruments more intuitively. This system, implemented in the project website, is achieved in two ways.
  • Presenting the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system in a different way, suitable for an audience not educated in the science of musical instruments and their classification. For example, the Optokraak is classified as ‘533.11 Analogue modules: audio signal generators’ in the Hornbostel-Sachs system, and can be indicated as ‘electronic’ and ‘synthesizer’ in the alternative classification system. The Bourdonola (‘514 Electro-acoustic aerophones’ according to Hornbostel-Sachs) may simply be a ‘music robot’ because of the principle of an ‘organ’ using ‘midi’.
  • Terms that aren’t normally associated with musical instruments can also be added through this alternative keyword system, which may generate more interest. Examples of this include terms such as ‘touchpoints’, ‘sonar’ and ‘tobacco tin’.