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 @@BEGIN: PRESENTATION
 @id: kranenburg
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+@title: Some Insights from the Polifonia-Project: Co-Design, Ecosystem, and Knowledge Graph Exploration
 @presenter: Peter van Kranenburg
-@affiliation:
+@affiliation: Utrecht University
 @date: 2024-10-24
 @time: 11:00
 @abstract:
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+  The EU H2020 Polifonia Project (2021-2024) set as its aim
+  to recreate the connections between music, people, places
+  and events from the sixteenth century to the modern day as
+  an interconnected global database on the web, a knowledge
+  graph. In ten pilot projects and four technology-providing
+  work packages, we took up this challenge. In this talk, I
+  would like to highlight some practices and results that are
+  non-trivial and might be inspirational for other projects.
+  I will provide specific examples from work on musical
+  instruments (especially pipe organs), and music sources.
+  Throughout the project, we continuously involved potential
+  end-users for our tools, thus developing not <i>for</i> musicologists,
+  but <i>with</i> musicologists. This end-user involvement resulted
+  in a series of competency questions for the tools and
+  knowledge graphs, which ensured the usefulness of our
+  tools and data for the intended end users.
+
+  Since the project was large, we needed a way to organize the 
+  many deliverables. For this, we released the Polifonia Ecosystem,
+  which is an overarching structure for presenting the more than
+  one hundred reusable software and data components, including
+  an explorative interface and documentation.
 
+  Since the knowledge graphs that have been produced by the
+  project are very large, we designed a novel way for domain
+  experts to explore the contents of the data. We implemented
+  an online interface in which users can construct ‘paths’
+  through the data. These paths can be stored and shared with
+  other users. A path consists of data points, but also can
+  include stages in which a narrative is shared, or a response
+  from the user is requested. We built such an interface for
+  the knowledge graph with pipe organ data.
 
+  The co-design approach, the organization of components as
+  ecosystem, and the pathways approach to knowledge graph
+  exploration have the potential to be reapplied in other projects.
+
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