We are collecting references! Have you used DIAMM, the Cantus Database, or the Cantus Index for research, publications, presentations, performances, or teaching this year? Please help us fill our annual report for the Digital Research Alliance with lists of all the many ways that these online resources have aided your activities this past year. If you reported any items last year as forthcoming and they have now appeared, please report them again. Please send citations or descriptions by Wednesday, October 23rd to Debra at [email protected]. Thank you so much!

ADVANCE WARNING: Hello chant researchers! There are some software upgrades required at the Cantus Index (https://cantusindex.org), so the login function to add new chants will be temporarily closed on Mon Aug 26.

The site will always be available to view!

We anticipate that the login for new contributions will be available in the first half of September.

Please let us know if you have any questions at [email protected] or [email protected].

This Friday, July 5, 2024, at 5 PM CEST, Dr. Anna de Bakker, Postdoctoral Researcher for the DACT Project, Dalhousie University, will present: "Leaves and Links: Enhancing Fragmentarium’s collection of musically-notated liturgical chant fragments."

She will be presenting her behind-the-scenes work on the Fragmentarium and Cantus web platforms, enriching both in a spectacular example of cross-project collaboration.

Registration is via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-mtrzkqGtxBAaIrEDXa0crha1wKCHDQ

The Cantus Database will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Saturday, May 18, 2024. The website will be available for consultation but not for entering any new data. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Also, please note that additional server maintenance is scheduled for Wednesday, June 5, 2024 from 6:30-10:30 AM PT (UTC -7). During this time there may be periods of no network access, so please plan accordingly.

Starting today, May 1, 2024, all cantus.uwaterloo.ca traffic is being redirected to cantusdatabase.org. All of your cantus.uwaterloo.ca addresses and bookmarks should take you seamlessly to the new domain name. No action is required on your part and you will probably not even notice anything new (unless you look in your address bar!).

If you want to update your bookmarks, use cantusdatabase.org at the start of all of your CantusDB https:// addresses.

Thank you to the University of Waterloo for hosting the Cantus Database since 2011, and for setting up these permanent redirects. For anyone interested where the data is served, UW will now host our Cantus Index catalogue, and the Cantus Database is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, funded through the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission project based at Dalhousie University (SSHRC 895-2023-1002).

Book collector Nick Alexander found fragments of medieval chant manuscripts in 18th-century book bindings, and sought to find out more by reaching out to the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission project and the Cantus Database. His story was picked up by NBC in Connecticut.

Click here to watch!

Click here for the description of DACT included on the website of the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen.

Click here for an announcement about our DACT partnership grant from the University of Missouri-Kansas City!

Click here for an article from Conrad Grebel University College about our DACT partnership grant!

The next Music Encoding Conference will be held 20-23 May 2024 at the University of North Texas in Denton. Click here for the Call for Proposals (deadline 15 Jan 2024).