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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Martha Eladia Thomae Elias

Citation names

  • Thomae, Martha E.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
951D-771F-2537
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5042-2266

Email addresses

  • marthathomae@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
  • martha.thomaeelias@mail.mcgill.ca (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/01 - 2022/10/31
Concluded
Music Technology (Doktor (PhD))
McGill University Schulich School of Music, Canada
"Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: From Manuscript to Digital Images to Edited Symbolic Scores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/09/01 - 2017/12/31
Concluded
Music Technology (Master Universitario)
McGill University Schulich School of Music, Canada
"Automatic Scoring Up of Mensural Music Using Perfect Mensurations, 1300–1550" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013
Concluded
Mathematics (Bachelor)
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
"Desarrollo de un modelo algorítmico para la transformación de partituras musicales escritas en notación mensural blanca a notación contemporánea" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012
Concluded
Art History: Medieval and Islamic Art (Diplôme d´études supérieures)
Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/11/01 - 2026/02/28 Postdoc (Research) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/02/15 - 2023/11/30 Postdoc (Research) McGill University, Canada
2015/09/01 - 2023/02/14 Research Assistant (Research) McGill University, Canada
2020 - 2022 Research Assistant (Research) Brandeis University, United States
McGill University, Canada
2020/09/01 - 2021/12/31 Coordinating Researcher (Research) McGill University, Canada

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/09/01 - 2020/12/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) McGill University, Canada
2017/09/01 - 2018/12/31 Assistant (University Teacher) McGill University, Canada
2014/01/01 - 2014/05/31 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
2011/01/01 - 2011/05/31 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
2009/01/01 - 2009/05/31 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
2008/07/01 - 2008/11/30 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/01 - Current Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission
Researcher
Dalhousie University, Canada
Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Ongoing
2023/10/01 - 2026/02/28 Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024 - 2024 Dynamic scoring-up and display of early music in Verovio
Technical development
Universität Paderborn, Germany
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
2023/02/01 - 2023/10/31 LinkedMusic: Interlinking music resources for enhanced access
Post-doc Fellow
McGill University, Canada
Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Ongoing
2015/09/01 - 2023/01/31 Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis
Researcher
McGill University, Canada
Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Concluded
2018/05 - 2022/04 Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: From Manuscript to Digital Images to Symbolic Editorial Scores
2019-B2Z- 261749
McGill University, Canada
Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture
Concluded
2020/01 - 2020/12 Measuring Polyphony: An Online Music Editor for Late Medieval Polyphony
Researcher
Brandeis University, United States
National Endowment for the Humanities
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Thomae, Martha E.. Corresponding author: Thomae, Martha E.. "The Guatemalan Choirbooks: Facilitating Preservation, Performance, and Study of the Colonial Repertoire". In Christian Sacred Music in the Americas, 23-58. New York, NY, United States: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Martha E. Thomae; David Rizo; Eliseo Fuentes-Martínez; Cristina Alís Raurich; Elsa De Luca; Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza. "A Preliminary Proposal for a Systematic GABC Encoding of Gregorian Chant". 2024.
    10.1145/3660570.3660581
  2. Thomae, Martha E.; Julie E. Cumming; Ichiro Fujinaga. Corresponding author: Thomae, Martha E.. "Counterpoint Error-Detection Tools for Optical Music Recognition of Renaissance Polyphonic Music". Paper presented in International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Bengaluru, 2022.
    Published • https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7316709
  3. Thomae, Martha E.; Julie E. Cumming; Ichiro Fujinaga. Corresponding author: Thomae, Martha E.. "Digitization of Choirbooks in Guatemala". Paper presented in Digital Libraries for Musicologists, Prague, 2022.
    Published • 10.1145/3543882.3543885
  4. Karen Desmond; Laurent Pugin; Juliette Regimbal; David Rizo; Craig Sapp; Thomae, Martha E.. Corresponding author: Karen Desmond. "Encoding Polyphony from Medieval Manuscripts Notated in Mensural Notation". Paper presented in Music Encoding Conference, San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, 2021.
    Published • 10.17613/TF2J-X697
  5. Thomae, Martha E.; Antonio Ríos-Vila; Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza; David Rizo; José M. Iñesta. Corresponding author: Thomae, Martha E.. "Retrieving Music Semantics from Optical Music Recognition by Machine Translation". Paper presented in Music Encoding Conference, Boston, 2020.
    Published • 10.17613/605Z-NT78
  6. Thomae, Martha E.; Julie E. Cumming; Ichiro Fujinaga. Corresponding author: Thomae, Martha E.. "The Mensural Scoring-up Tool". Paper presented in Digital Libraries for Musicology, The Hague, 2019.
    Published • 10.1145/3358664.3358668
Conference poster
  1. Karen Desmond; Andrew Hankinson; Laurent Pugin; Juliette Regimbal; Craig Sapp; Thomae, Martha E.. Corresponding author: Karen Desmond. "Next Steps for Measuring Polyphony: A Prototype Editor for Encoding Mensural Music". Paper presented in Music Encoding Conference, 2020.
    10.17613/5K88-9Z02
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/07/06 Workshop: Encoding Neumes with MEI Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2024/06/28 Digital Images and Symbolic Corpus of Sacred Polyphonic Music in Guatemala and their Retrieval Process Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research Conference: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/27 Enhancing Musicological Analysis through Digital Tools Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research Conference: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/25 MEI Encoding of Early Music. The Neumes Module Research Seminar Series “Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels” (being part of the COST Action Early Muse)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/24 Music Retrieval Tools (OMR and Music Analysis) Research Seminar Series “Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels” (being part of the COST Action Early Muse)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/22 From Manuscript to Pixel. Tips for a Digitizing Campaign and for Handling Endangered Sources Research Seminar Series “Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels” (being part of the COST Action Early Muse)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2024/05/24 Codificación y publicación de música: Un taller sobre la Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Semana de Humanidades Digitales
Online (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2024/05/21 Encoding and Analysis of Early Music: Aquitanian and Square Music Scripts Music Encoding Conference
University of North Texas (Denton, Texas, United States)
2024/02/14 Cantorales in the Americas & Beyond
Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/02/01 De Pergaminho a Biblioteca Digital: O Cantochão de Braga e Guimarães como Estudo de Caso 4º Encontro Nacional de Investigadores IN2PAST
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/12/13 MIR for Early Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic Encoding of Mensural Sources into Symbolic Scores Computational and Digital Approaches to Music Scholarship
University of Würzburg (Würzburg, Germany)
2023/09/08 Updates and Outcomes from the Guatemalan Digitization and Encoding Project Music Encoding and Text Encoding Initiative Joint Conference
Universität Paderborn (Paderborn, Germany)
2023/07/25 MEI-Workshop: Mensural Music Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
(Munnich, Germany)
2023/05/12 Codificación y publicación de música: Un taller sobre Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Semana de Humanidades Digitales
Online
2022/12/06 Counterpoint Error-Detection Tools for Optical Music Recognition of Renaissance Polyphonic Music International Society of Music Information Retrieval
(Bengaluru, India)
2022/11/11 AMS-IAMSG Lightning Lounge – Cantorales: Spanish Chant Books in the Americas and Beyond American Musicological Society / Society for Ethnomusicology / Society for Music Theory Joint Meeting
(New Orleans, United States)
2022/11/11 Music Encoding for Research, Pedagogy, and Discovery – Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: From Manuscripts to Digital Images to Symbolic Editorial Scores American Musicological Society / Society for Ethnomusicology / Society for Music Theory Joint Meeting
(New Orleans, United States)
2022/08/24 Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbooks: Automatic Transcription of Mensural Sources for Their Preservation, Access, and Study International Musicological Society Congress
(Athens, Greece)
2022/07/27 Digitization of Choirbooks in Guatemala Digital Libraries for Musicology
(Prague, Czech Republic)
2022/05/19 Interactive OMR-Assisted Transcription of Mensural Sources Using MuRET Music Encoding Conference
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)
2022/03/11 Accidental Discoveries Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) Workshop 7: Cantorales in the Americas and Beyond
Online
2021/12/02 OMR and Digital Technologies Applied to Music Palaeography course
Centro de Estudos de Sociología e Estética Musical (CESEM), NOVA University of Lisbon (online) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/07/21 Encoding Polyphony from Medieval Manuscripts Notated in Mensural Notation Music Encoding Conference
University of Alicante (hybrid) (San Vicente del Raspeig, Alicante, Spain)
2021/07/06 Guatemalan Cathedral Choirbook 1: From Manuscript to Digital Images to Digital Scores Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (hybrid) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/03/18 Workshop I: Making Rodan Work for You Digital Humanities in Early Music Research 2021 – Session I: OMR-Capable Chant Editors
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
2021/01/26 Digital Infrastructures for Mensural Music Using MEI
Kolloquium Musikwissenschaft, Freiburg er Forschungs und Lehrzentrum Musik (FZM) (online) (Freiburg, Germany)
2021/01/25 Encoding Mensural Notation with MEI Paleography course
University of Freiburg (online) (Freiburg, Germany)
2020/06/30 Workshop II: Hands-on MEI Encoding Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I Series – Session II: Early Music Databases and Encoding
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
2020/06/24 Workshop I: Introduction to MEI Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I Series – Session II: Early Music Databases and Encoding
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
2020/06/22 MEI for Encoding Mensural Music – A Survey Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I Series – Session II: Early Music Databases and Encoding
Online (Prague, Czech Republic)
2020/05/27 Retrieving Music Semantics from Optical Music Recognition by Machine Translation Music Encoding Conference
Tufts University (online) (Boston, United States)
2019/11/27 Digitization and Encoding of the Musical Contents of a Set of Guatemalan Choirbooks Lecture for Multimedia Systems (GLIS 633) course
McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
2019/11/09 The Mensural Scoring-up Tool Digital Libraries for Musicology
National Library of The Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
2019/09/21 OMR for Mensural Notation: Looking at a Guatemalan Music Manuscript SIMSSA Workshop XIX
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
2019/07/10 Taking Digital Humanities to Guatemala, a Case Study in the Preservation of Colonial Musical Heritage Digital Humanities Conference
Tivoli Vredenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2019/06/02 Guatemalan Manuscripts: Digitization Issues and Future Challenges in the Adaption of the OMR Workflow for Mensural Music SIMSSA Workshop XVIII
Department of Musicology, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2019/05/31 Application of Music-Encoding Technologies to Guatemalan Choirbooks, Facilitating Preservation and Musicological Studies of the Colonial Repertoire Music Encoding Conference
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2019/03/18 Preservation of the Colonial Musical Heritage of Guatemala through Digitization and Music Encoding Technologies Association of Canadian Archivists McGill Student Chapter’s annual colloquium: Archival Outreach & Hidden Collections
McLennan-Redpath Library Complex, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
2018/12/01 Guatemalan Manuscript Digitization Project SIMSSA Workshop XVII: Infrastructure for Music Discovery
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
2018/07/06 Automatic Scoring up of Parts in Mensural Notation Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
Maynooth University (Maynooth, Ireland)
2018/05/23 Automatic Scoring up of Music in Mensural Notation Music Encoding Conference
Maryland University (College Park, United States)
2018/04/27 Automatic Scoring up of Mensural Parts Digital Musicology Workshop
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
2017/08/07 Automatic Scoring-up Tool for Mensural Music SIMSSA Workshop XII
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)
2017/05/22 A Methodology for Encoding Mensural Music: Introducing the Mensural MEI Translator
Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
2017/05/17 A Methodology for Encoding Mensural Music: Introducing the Mensural MEI Translator Music Encoding Conference
Université de Tours (Tours, France)
2016/09/24 Digital Encoding of Mensural Music SIMSSA Workshop X
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Canada)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 General Chair for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (2024/06/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2023 - 2023 Program Chair for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (2023/11/10)
Conference (Member of the Scientific Committee)
Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano Biblioteca, Italy
2022/07/28 - 2022/07/28 Session chair for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (2022/07/28)
Conference (Other)
Mestská knihovna v Praze, Czech Republic
2021/07/20 - 2021/07/20 Session chair for the Music Encoding Conference (2021/07/19 - 2021/07/22)
Conference (Other)
Universitat d'Alacant, Spain

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - 2024 Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical, Instituto de Música de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2024 - 2024 Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)
2024 - 2024 Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017 - Current International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Member
2016 - Current Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Member
2016 - Current Mensural Interest Group of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Member
2016 - 2022 Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) Student member
2017 - 2019 Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) Student Coordinator of Research Axis 2: Music Information Research

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2024/07/01 - Current Co-Chair of the Mensural Interest Group of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) community
Director
2020/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) Board Member
Member
2020 - 2021 Co-Chair of the Mensural Interest Group of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) community
Director

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024 - 2024 Text Encoding Initiative Conference Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024 - 2024 Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research Conference: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
2021 - 2021 Digital Libraries for Musicology Online
2021 - 2021 Music Encoding Conference Universitat d'Alacant

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Reviewer of the Spanish translation of MEI tutorials (https://music-encoding.org/resources/tutorials-ES.html)
2020 - Current Editor of the Guidelines' Chapter on Mensural Notation (for the Music Encoding Initiative, MEI)
Distinctions

Award

2024 Inclusiveness Target Country (ITC) Conference Grant
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2019 Best Paper Award
Music Encoding Initiative, Germany
2019 Travel Award
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Canada
2019 Inter-Centre Research Exchange Funding
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Canada
2018 Travel Award
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Canada
2013 Honors mention for undergraduate thesis
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
2010 Academic Distinction
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
2007 Academic Distinction
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala

Other distinction

2020 McGill's Nominee for the Northeastern Association for Graduate Schools (NAGS) for Master's Thesis Award in Arts & Humanities
McGill University, Canada