Digital Technologies in Theatre & Performance Studies NEH Institute
June 18, 2018
Boulez and the Philharmonic
Concert Types
Composer Popularity
Familiarity and Novelty
Composer Nationalities
DH and Performance
Shape of a DH Project
DH Data
Examples of Performance Data
Database Ontologies
The Shape of a DH Project
stravinsky = set()
for p in programs:
season = int(p.find('season').text[:4])
performances= len(p.findall('concertInfo'))
if 1971 <= season < 1977:
for w in p.findall('.//work'):
if w.find('interval') is None:
conductor = w.find('conductorName').text
if re.search(r'Boulez, Pierre', conductor):
composer = w.find('composerName').text
if composer == 'Stravinsky, Igor':
workID = re.search(r'(\d*)', w.attrib['ID']).group(1)
stravinsky.add(workID)
stravinsky = 0
for p in programs:
season = int(p.find('season').text[:4])
performances= len(p.findall('concertInfo'))
if 1971 <= season < 1977:
concert = set()
for w in p.findall('.//work'):
if w.find('interval') is None:
conductor = w.find('conductorName').text
if re.search(r'Boulez, Pierre', conductor):
composer = w.find('composerName').text
if composer == 'Stravinsky, Igor':
workID = re.search(r'(\d*)', w.attrib['ID']).group(1)
concert.add(workID)
stravinsky += len(concert)*performances
stravinsky = 0
everyone = 0
for p in programs:
season = int(p.find('season').text[:4])
performances= len(p.findall('concertInfo'))
if 1971 <= season < 1977:
concert = set()
stravinsky_concert = set()
for w in p.findall('.//work'):
if w.find('interval') is None:
conductor = w.find('conductorName').text
if re.search(r'Boulez, Pierre', conductor):
composer = w.find('composerName').text
workID = re.search(r'(\d*)', w.attrib['ID']).group(1)
if composer == 'Stravinsky, Igor':
stravinsky_concert.add(workID)
concert.add(workID)
stravinsky += len(stravinsky_concert)*performances
everyone += len(concert)*performances
percentage = round(stravinsky/everyone*100,2)
The Shape of a DH Project
conceive a research question
select an archive
create a dataset
develop a database
analyze the database with code or a program
design interfaces and/or visualizations to summarize analytic results
use analyses as evidence to support a larger argument
