Musicology, digital humanities, and research infrastructure.
Doctoral thesis in musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: „Apparat Musikwissenschaft – Eine Geschichte der Musikforschung in der DDR“. Supervisors: Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch and Klaus Pietschmann. Appears Berlin 2026, in print and open access.
Master of Arts in Musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Thesis: „Die Oper Agnes von Carl August Krebs“.
Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies and Musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Thesis: „Die audiovisuelle Ästhetik der Musikvideos von Michel Gondry“.
Doctoral fellowship, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin, for the dissertation project „Apparat Musikwissenschaft“ and its publication.
Early Career Programme grantee, RDA Europe 4.0.
Paul Fortier Prize, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, for the Best Emerging Scholar Presentation at DH2018 in Mexico City, awarded for IncipitSearch.
Bursary Award, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, travel grant for DH2018 in Mexico City.
Algorithmic approaches to musical recognition and analysis, bridging notated and audio-based music. Cooperation partner on a project led by Anna Neovesky, funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.
National research data infrastructure for tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Led the coordination office and worked on the NFDI4Culture portal.
Web platform for searching notated music, with a web service and open API for music data. Concept and development, with a focus on music information retrieval, semantic modelling, and web development.
Digital catalogue raisonné of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s works. Technical development and data modelling for the digital edition of the complete works, and open-access delivery.
Information portal recording, visualising and analysing small academic disciplines in Germany. Worked on the concept and technical implementation, with the German federal education ministry and the Volkswagen Foundation.
European research information system for the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. Concept and implementation, including the interlinking and reuse of research data.
Digital source collection and edition of the official reports on musicological work in the GDR. Methodological and technical realisation of a research tool that makes the reports analysable using natural language processing. Code at github.com/vonvlaho/bibreports.
Digital catalogue of medieval stained glass in Germany.
Digital edition of Goethe’s diaries, letters, encounters and conversations.
Graph-based digital edition of the Socinian correspondence.
Digital edition of the works of Hans Kelsen.
Database of around 40,000 mass settings from the fourteenth century to the present.
„Apparat Musikwissenschaft – Eine Geschichte der Musikforschung in der DDR“, Berlin 2026, in print and open access.
„Facetten grenzüberschreitender Musikwissenschaft in der DDR nach 1961“, in: Begegnungsräume, edited by Anna Hesse, Kristina Gunne, Marieluise Labry and Felix Schneider, forthcoming Berlin 2026.
„On 19th-century ‘Musicosmopolitanism’: Tracing the publishing entrepreneur Julius Schuberth (1804–1875)“, in: Transatlantic Perspectives on Hidden Late 19th Century Music Cultures, edited by Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch, Birger Petersen and Nico Schüler, Berlin 2026 (Methodology of Musicology 13).
With Anna Neovesky: „Interconnecting music repositories with semantic web technologies – an RDF- and schema.org-based approach“, in: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36/1 (2020), pp. i49–i54. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa019
With Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – Leitfaden zur Zusammenarbeit“, in: Brückenschläge zwischen Musikwissenschaft und Informatik. Theoretische und praktische Aspekte der Kooperation, in collaboration with the Digital Musicology Group, edited by Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch, Andreas Münzmay and Joachim Veit, Detmold 2020 (Musikwissenschaft: Aktuelle Perspektiven. Bericht über die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2019 in Paderborn und Detmold 3), pp. 41–52. https://doi.org/10.25366/2020.93
„Opernsplitter des 19. Jahrhunderts – Zur Agnes von Carl Krebs“, in: Christoph Willibald Gluck. Sein Opernschaffen – Bezüge, Reaktionen, Perspektiven, edited by Gwendolyn Döring, Mainz 2018, pp. 155–166.
With Sebastian Lange and Maximilian Kopp: „AGATE: Ein Forschungsinformationssystem für offene Akademienforschung“, Open Access Days 2020, Bielefeld, 16 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4018506
With Sebastian Lange: „AGATE: A CRIS on the Way to Europe“, 15th RDA Plenary Meeting, Melbourne, 18 March 2020.
With Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – Leitfaden zur Zusammenarbeit“, Annual Meeting of the German Society for Musicology, Paderborn and Detmold, 13 September 2019. https://doi.org/10.25366/2020.93
With Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – A Guide to Collaboration“, Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, 11 July 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3349643
With Anna Neovesky: „Exchanging Musical Metadata with IncipitSearch“, Conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), Leipzig 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1321774
With Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – Vernetzung Musikwissenschaftlicher Vorhaben“, Digital Humanities in the German-speaking World (DHd) 2018, Cologne, 28 February 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1182430
With Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch. Ein offener Webservice zur Aggregation und Suche notierter Musik“, Digital Humanities Austria 2017, Innsbruck 2017.
With Anna Neovesky: „Perspektiven digitaler Werkverzeichnisse: IncipitSearch am Beispiel der Gluck Gesamtausgabe“, Annual Meeting of the German Society for Musicology, Kassel, 28 September 2017.
„Digitalisierung, Daten, digitale Methoden. Zu den Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation im Bereich kleiner Fächer“, invited keynote, workshop „Digitalisierung in Lehre und Forschung kleiner Fächer“, online, 5 November 2020.
Panel „Deciphering Encoded Music: Increasing Access to Open Data Resources“, Digital Humanities 2020 ‘carrefours/intersections’, Ottawa, 20–25 July 2020, online, with Joanna Devaney, Natalia Ermolaev, Anna Kijas, Anna Neovesky, Mark Saccomano and Raffaele Viglianti. https://dh2020.adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/636_DecipheringEncodedMusicIncreasingAccesstoOpenDataResources.html
„Perspektiven für die Fachgeschichte der Musikwissenschaft: Die Berichte über die Musikwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik als Datenquelle künftiger Forschung“, conference „Wissenstransfer über Grenzen und Zeitenwenden. Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Gesellschaftswissenschaften in der DDR 1970–1989“, Frankfurt (Oder), 16–17 April 2020.
„IncipitSearch – Interlinking Musicological Repositories“, Digital Humanities 2018 ‘Puentes/Bridges’, Mexico City, 26–29 June 2018, with Anna Neovesky. https://dh2018.adho.org/en/incipitsearch-interlinking-musicological-repositories/
„IncipitSearch – Digitale Notensuche“, Digital Humanities Austria, Innsbruck, 4–6 December 2017, with Anna Neovesky. https://digicademy.github.io/2017-DHA
„Ebenen der Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten in der Mainzer Akademie“, AG eHumanities der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften, Düsseldorf, 9 September 2016, with Aline Deicke and others. https://digicademy.github.io/2016-agehum-ddorf/
„Digitale Musikwissenschaft. Das ABC der akustischen Welt“, International Summer School, Mainz 2020.
„Methods and tools for annotating music“, International Summer School, Mainz 2019.
Founder and Managing Director, Representing Artists GmbH, Berlin.
Product Owner, idealo internet GmbH, Berlin.
Doctoral Fellow, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin.
Research Associate and Coordination Lead, NFDI4Culture Coordination Office, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
Research Associate and Research Software Engineer, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
Research Assistant, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Editorial work and web development for the MassDataBase in the DFG project „Die frühe Messvertonung zwischen liturgischer Funktion und Kunstanspruch“.
Working Student, Content Management, SinnerSchrader AG, Frankfurt am Main.
Working Student, Music Service, ZDF, Mainz.