Indiana university digital music library project

Abstract

The Indiana University Digital Music Library project plans to create a digital library testbed system containing music in a variety of formats, designed to support research and education in the field of music and to serve as a platform for digital library research. Prototypes of user interfaces to the system will be demonstrated.

A digital library data model for music

“…Structural metadata has been used in other music digital library systems [1][4] to store information on track descriptions and time or page number offsets in order to provide users with navigation capabilities within a given recording or score. In the Variations2, structural metadata of this form is attached to each container object as container structure.…”

The Scientific Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval Systems: Foundations and Future

“…Third, establishing and maintaining workable linkages between the various manifestations of each work (i.e., linkages between and among a given piece's audio, symbolic, and metadata information) is a non-trivial research problem (Dunn, Davidson and Isaacson 2001;Smiraglia 2001). Much more work needs to be done on this problem so that one retrieval method is not ''privileged'' over another.…”

Indiana university digital music library project

“…Key to the project is the interdisciplinary team of investigators, who represent the academic disciplines of information science, computer science, law, music theory and music education, as well as the professional disciplines of academic research libraries and information technology services. The project builds in part upon experiences with a previous operational digital music library system at Indiana University known as VARIATIONS [2].…”