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The Rest is Silence: Leveraging Unseen Species Models for Computational Musicology
Fabian C. Moss, Jan Haji\v{c} jr., Adrian Nachtwey, Laurent Pugin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14638

The Rest is Silence: Leveraging Unseen Species Models for Computational Musicology
For many decades, musicologists have engaged in creating large databases serving different purposes for musicological research and scholarship. With the rise of fields like music information retrieval and digital musicology, there is now a constant and growing influx of musicologically relevant datasets and corpora. In historical or observational settings, however, these datasets are necessarily incomplete, and the true extent of a collection of interest remains unknown -- silent. Here, we appl…

Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora
Jan Haji\v{c} jr., Fabian Moss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14614 https://

Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora
A major locus of musicological activity-increasingly in the digital domain-is the cataloguing of sources, which requires large-scale and long-lasting research collaborations. Yet, the databases aiming at covering and representing musical repertoires are never quite complete, and scholars must contend with the question: how much are we still missing? This question structurally resembles the 'unseen species' problem in ecology, where the true number of species must be estimated from limited obser…