About

The specification relMUSS aims to annotate religious music, silence and speech in church liturgy and preaching for machine learning purposes. It is part of a larger project 'Computational Religious Rhetoric and Ritual'.

Project

The project 'Computational Religious Rhetoric and Ritual' (CRRR) uses computational methods for a large-scale study of Protestant worship services, with a special emphasis on preaching. The specification provides the first step to build a predictive algorithm to classify liturgical elements of (Protestant) worship from audio recordings of church worship services.

Authorship

relMUSS is designed in 2021 and maintained by Theo Pleizier (Protestant Theological University) with support of Johan Bos (University of Groningen), Wim Otte (University Medical Centre Utrecht) and Dirk Sierd de Vries (PThU). The specification is still in development.

License

The documentation is licensed under MIT license.