The Application of the IODA Document Architecture to Music Data

Abstract

This paper is concerned with storing music data with the use of document architecture called Interactive Open Document Architecture (IODA). This architecture makes it possible to create documents which are executable, mobile, interactive and intelligent. Such documents consist of many files that are semantically related to each other. Semantic links are defined in XML files which are a part of a document. IODA documents with music data have been called IODA Music Documents. Such documents consist of a file with sound, a file with lyrics and many other files with data related to the document. It is easier to search for music files in a collection of music stored in the form of IODA Music Documents. Users can search for songs on the basis of a part of their lyrics or they can perform the search with the use of humming queries. In this kind of a search users record a part of a melody that they remember and the searching system retrieves music files that match the recorded melody.