Citation metadata

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use VAO, cite the versioned standard and its responsible editor."
title: "Virtual Acoustic Object (VAO) Standard"
type: software
version: "0.6.0"
date-released: 2026-10-10
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23287792
authors:
  - family-names: Ukolov
    given-names: Dominik
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-3892"
    affiliation: "Digital Humanities (Image/Object), Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Research Group DIGITAL ORGANOLOGY, Leipzig University"
repository-code: "https://github.com/modavis-project/vao-standard"
url: "https://github.com/modavis-project/vao-standard/releases/tag/v0.6.0"
license: CC-BY-4.0
keywords:
  - virtual acoustic object
  - musical instrument
  - digital preservation
  - multimodal research data
  - acoustics
  - provenance
  - mechanical music information carriers
  - MMIC
abstract: >-
  VAO is a preservation-oriented exchange standard for semantic, scientific,
  multimodal, physical, playable, rights, and exact-byte descriptions of
  musical instruments, mechanical music information carriers, associated digital designs and other acoustic objects.