Knowledge Laboratory (DataLab)

Projects

The digital curation projects aim to organize our digital knowledge and include a range of activities such as data cleansing, modelling, preservation, curation and dissemination of our printed, audio and digital content. The data analytics projects aim to better understand the activity of the Foundation and its users as well as support organizational decision-making.

• Spanish Music Theatre Portal from a selection of works. Includes a wide range of curatorial tasks and the innovative work of OCR of printed notation scores resulting in MusicXML documents that allows listening to the score with virtual instruments.
• Automatic keyword generation for concerts and lectures. Applying machine learning algorithms to automatically assign keywords to events in the Foundation.
• Personal and organizational name dissambiguation. Using clústering techniques to identify names that are the same but written slightly different.
• Web user behaviour analysis. From the data collected from web traffic and to improve user experience, user behavior is analysed to learn what they use, how they book events or what they look for.

Research

The Library collaborates with Universities in research activities and projects. Currently, it is taking part in a research project led by the University of Salamanca to develop a statistical framework for coincidence analysis. The statistical programming tool R is used with the D3 visualization library. In addition to this, there is an ongoing collaboration with the Faculty of Mathematics from the University Complutense to undertake MSc dissertations in Computational Statistics in the Foundation.