Martha E. THOMAE is a PhD candidate in Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. She has a BSc in Mathematics from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and a MA in Music Technology from McGill. Her research focuses on the preservation and encoding of mensural music. She is a member of the “Distributed Digital Music Archives & Libraries Lab” led by Ichiro Fujinaga (2015–present) and a board member of the “Music Encoding Initiative” (2020–22). Her dissertation is on the digitization and encoding of Guatemalan choirbooks from the colonial period using optical music recognition and computational error detection.
