Music information towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources Michael Fingerhut Ircam, Paris (France)

Music information towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

Michael Fingerhut

Ircam, Paris (France)

Handling sound resources from creation to preservation and use within a larger context Resources

Physical Digital Events

Workflow From creation… …to preservation …to online delivery

Use Search Access Reuse

IASA 2009, AthensMusic information: towards a

converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 2

The context: IRCAM and its Multimedia Library



Music productionR&D

Multimedia Library

Commercial assetsPhysicalBooks, scores, periodicals, cds, films…DigitalDatabases

Director

Own productionPhysicalBooks, papers, ephemera…DigitalAs above + audio, video, Information (events)

Education

WebUsage

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1. WORKFLOW



Modeling the assets

Entities Events concerts, festivals, seasons… People Corporate orchestras, choirs… Venues concert and conference halls Documents audio, video, text…

Relations Is part of event of a festival Is a trace of recording of a manifestation Roles author, composer, librettist, performer…



Event Many types

Artistic Concert, dance, film projection, opera… Concert cycles, festivals…

Scientific Lectures, panels, talks, workshops… Conferences, courses,

Mixed master classes…

Variable duration and occurrence Once/repeated On a single day, hour and place or not

Split Long

Fixed contents may vary Repeated talk, performance Work in progress

Structured Seasons Cycles Conferences



ArchiProd Describe

Preserve

Deliver



Seasons

7

Season2007-2008

Season2006-2007

Events archive

Season2006-2007

Season1976-1977



Groups of events

8

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2006-2007

Cycle1

Cycle2

Festival

Cycle2-1

Cycle2-2

Cycles may contain cyclesA conference within a festival



Events

9

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

Event: “a noteworthy happening”, usually of a limited duration with a well-defined program.A concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop

Event2

Cycle: a group of cycles or of events.A concert series, a festival, a scientific conference

An event can be part of several cyclesA concert from a series programmed during a conference



Manifestation

10

Manifestation1

Manifestation2

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

Manifestation: an occurrence of an event, usually at a single date, time and place.A specific concert, talk…



Events and their traces

11

Manifestation1

Manifestation2

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

brochures

brochures

program notes, contracts

Part1

Part2

Part3

recording(video)

recording(video)

… single work

… single talk

… single piece

… may differ



Typology of events

12

Event

Artistic event

Meeting

Screening

Exhibit, installation

Other artistic event

Talk, work analysis

Scientific or technical conference

Other conference

Music course

Scientific or technical course

Other course

Other meeting

Other event

Conference

Course

Performance

Concert

Dance

Music theater

Other performance

Theater



The workflow

Time Artistic dept. Communications dept.

Production dept. Multimedia Library

The System

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Plans the season

Produces the season’sbrochure

Drafts contracts

Creates metadata

Uploads PDF

Produces the event’sbrochure

THE MANIFESTATIONRecords the

manifestation

Uploads the recordingModifies metadata

Uploads PDF

Validatesmodified metadata

Produces online andoffline versions

Completes metadataUploads PDF

Produces the web site

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Web site is online

Uploads press

Digital formats

Audio preservation (uploaded)

WAV/AIFF + METS (hard disc + tape backups) delivery streaming

on-site MPEG-1 Layer 2 + metadata internet MP3 excerpts, embedded metadata (sox, lame)

Text preservation (uploaded)

TIFF + PDF hi res (hard disc + tape backups) delivery

on-site compressed PDF internet compressed PDF + watermark

Metadata internal

cidoc-crm like delivery OAI harvesting

based on MODS (and Dublin Core)



Automaticallyproduced

Metadata model: simplified MODS Derived from MARC

Humanly readable XML Easy conversion from any schemes mostly optional “fields” Keeps associations people/rôles, subject/author/title…

Hierarchical ad inf. Express structure collections/items, cds/tracks, meta-

events/events… In the record/from record to record

Extensible enumerated values, elements Events Instrumentation Rights of access to contents intranet/extranet/internet



Resource categorization and attributes



<typeOfResource> (encoding)

cartographiccorporateeventmixed materialmoving imagenotated musicperson softwaresound recordingsound recording-musicalsound recording-non musicalstill imagetext3D object

<form>(media)

cassette…concertconférencedisque compact…document numériquedocument imprimédocument manuscritémissionexpositiongroupe d’événementsmicroficheorganismepersonne…

<genre>(nature of resource)

adresseatelierbibliothèque…biographiecataloguecentre de recherchecolloquedictionnaireéditeurfestivalformationmaster classmonographienote de programmenotice d’œuvresalle de spectacle…

<role>(rôle, instrumentation)

auteurcompositeurconférencierintervenantmusicien interprète

instrument(iste)sensembles

2. ACCESS, USE AND REUSE



The gateway to contemporary music resources in France: www.musiquecontemporaine.fr National project with 21 partners

who provide metadata who may provide related data (audio, text…)

Harvests metadata about contents about events about people

Also hosts metadata data which may be repurposed

audio: > 500 hours of music and some talks (free access on the internet) text: program notes, ephemera…

Is harvested Europeana aggregator French Ministry of Culture database …



2 national conservatoires7 contemporary music composition centers7 ensembles3 music libraries (incl. French nat’l library)1 music information center (MIC)1 label (non-commercial)

Online access to contents

Through the gateway Traditional search and browse Interactive map Internet radio

Through partners’ sites Playlist editor

Through third party sites Timeline Wikipedia Europeana, Collections.FR…



Harvesting gateway organization principle



Gateway

Librarycatalogue

Agenda ofevents

Soundarchives

Biographies,articles

Concertnotes

Partner C

Library catalogue

Agenda ofevents

Soundarchives


Concertnotes

Partner A

Librarycatalogue

Agenda ofevents

Soundarchives


Concertnotes

Partner B

Other gateway1

Other gateway2



On-site access





Internet radio

Now All hosted recordings (shuffle)

Future Programming

Technology Shoutcast





Timeline





June September

Google 77% 64%

Wikipedia 10% 20%

Total +15%

References

The gateway of French contemporary music resources http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/

Specs and technical documentation http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/doc

This presentation http://tinyurl.com/lg5uu9

This speaker’s [email protected]



Music information towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources Michael Fingerhut Ircam, Paris (France)

Documents

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ephemera digital

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events brochure

typology of events