2015-07-07 status

Done

Administrivia

• Assembled amendment materials for IRB.

Data Collection

• Integrated new Manual Data Collector (MDC) into Qualtrics survey, with low-to-high input ordering for chords (per Ivana's feedback).
• Completed pilot with Ivana.
• Drafted recruitment emails for faculty and for department staff.
• Established project web site at http://drando2.gsites.uic.edu (https://sites.google.com/a/uic.edu/didactyl).
• Compiled mailing list (Qualtrics panel) of nearly 200 piano faculty in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and Ohio. The hope is that a significant subset of these people and their students will a) respond and b) hail from Chicago.
• Settled on "Open Well-Tempered Clavier" (OpenWTC) and "Open Goldberg Variations" (OpenGoldberg) for our initial corpus, as these were well-publicized (Kickstarted) efforts by MuseScore to produce high-quality editions.
• Translated OpenWTC to abc format.
• Added a little experiment to the survey for two of the fingering exercises. Half of the subjects will see the suggested Czerney fingerings.
• Finalized survey.

Doing

1. Leveraging abc2svg for MDC4.
2. Standardizing file format for fingering.

Struggling

• Contemplating a major rewrite for MDC4, where I get out of the business of parsing abc myself. This should simplify the code greatly, but the way is not clear.
• Prelude and Fugue 18 appears to be corrupted by my hacking efforts to migrate to abc.