ANNOUNCEMENT: Significant Changes to the Golden Pages for Musicologists
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Mar 1, 2021, 11:01:10 AM3/1/21
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Dear list members,
The Golden Pages for Musicologists has been operating for a quarter of a century as a website moderated by musicologists at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was set up by Geoffrey Chew in the 1990s, and I have been maintaining it since 2005, jointly with Tim Summers since 2019, and now with Tom Parkinson. I'm writing now to announce some significant updates to the way the Golden Pages will run in future, to make contributing and editing much easier, and to expand the range of resources that the site can offer.
Listings of online departmental seminars
The first change is the creation of a new resource for online departmental seminars. Since everything is held online these days, and people are interested in attending research talks in places they can't otherwise reach, anywhere in the world, we think it would now be useful to offer a place to advertise these things in one place. I have filled in a few forthcoming RHUL events, and other institutions have started to add some of their own to this page. Please join them. Instructions on how to make an announcement are given on the page.
Other changes
The ambition for this new version of the Golden Pages is, however, broader than this. We invite musicologists to add any kind of material they think will be professionally interesting to musicologists. It is now a user-moderated wiki, using the same software as Wikipedia, and in principle, if something would professionally interest some musicologists, there seems no reason why it should not be on there. If people want to curate reading lists on musicological topics, share drafts of work for crowd-sourced feedback, or upload transcriptions or translations of research materials they would like to share, the wiki would allow it.
As with Wikipedia, all site users are now potential moderators, and anyone can correct for obvious errors or raise any issues that might arise as the site's users add their own text and edit the text of existing pages.
We hope that this new site design will make the flow of professional information swifter, easier, and much more flexible than it has been to date on the Golden Pages. We are hopeful that it will make the resource even more useful in future.
All the best,
Paul
https://goldenpages.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Golden Pages for Musicologists has been operating for a quarter of a century as a website moderated by musicologists at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was set up by Geoffrey Chew in the 1990s, and I have been maintaining it since 2005, jointly with Tim Summers since 2019, and now with Tom Parkinson. I'm writing now to announce some significant updates to the way the Golden Pages will run in future, to make contributing and editing much easier, and to expand the range of resources that the site can offer.
Listings of online departmental seminars
The first change is the creation of a new resource for online departmental seminars. Since everything is held online these days, and people are interested in attending research talks in places they can't otherwise reach, anywhere in the world, we think it would now be useful to offer a place to advertise these things in one place. I have filled in a few forthcoming RHUL events, and other institutions have started to add some of their own to this page. Please join them. Instructions on how to make an announcement are given on the page.
Other changes
The ambition for this new version of the Golden Pages is, however, broader than this. We invite musicologists to add any kind of material they think will be professionally interesting to musicologists. It is now a user-moderated wiki, using the same software as Wikipedia, and in principle, if something would professionally interest some musicologists, there seems no reason why it should not be on there. If people want to curate reading lists on musicological topics, share drafts of work for crowd-sourced feedback, or upload transcriptions or translations of research materials they would like to share, the wiki would allow it.
As with Wikipedia, all site users are now potential moderators, and anyone can correct for obvious errors or raise any issues that might arise as the site's users add their own text and edit the text of existing pages.
We hope that this new site design will make the flow of professional information swifter, easier, and much more flexible than it has been to date on the Golden Pages. We are hopeful that it will make the resource even more useful in future.
All the best,
Paul
https://goldenpages.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
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