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Eleanor Selfridge-Field is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University specializing in Music and Symbolic Systems. Her research focuses on musical informatics, data representation, and the analysis of musical scores, particularly in classical music. She has been involved in developing open-source repositories that host musical scores, emphasizing access, query, analysis, and graphical transformations of data. Eleanor has extensive experience in musical data-query methods and has contributed significantly to understanding the intersection of music and cultural history. She has authored works such as 'Song Season' and has received accolades for her scholarship, including the 2008 Distinguished Bibliography Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her current interests also include historical research on Vivaldi and the cognitive studies related to music and intellectual property issues. Outside academia, she has been affiliated with the Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) since 2011, drawing international scholars to explore musical culture and its transformational implications over centuries.
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