The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal (aka h.6), the oldest complete music score, as Linked Data
This repo contains all resources related to the DH2019 paper The Oldest Song Score in the Newest Notation: The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal as Linked Data. In summary, the paper works towards building a Knowledge Graph (KG) about all known facts around the oldest piece of music notation known: the Sumerian Hymn to Nikkal (h.6). We publish here the resources used to create the KG, and the KG itself in RDF format.
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