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

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

2. Handling sound resources from creation to preservation and use within a larger context • Resources • Physical • Digital • Events • Workflow • Fromcreation… • …to preservation • …to online delivery • Use • Search • Access • Reuse Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

3. The context: IRCAM and its Multimedia Library Director R&D Education Music production Workflow Commercial assets Physical Books, scores, periodicals, cds, films… Digital Databases Own production Physical Books, papers, ephemera… Digital As above + audio, video, Information (events) Usage Web Multimedia Library Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

4. 1. Workflow Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

5. 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… Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

6. Event • ArchiProd • Describe • Preserve • Deliver • 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 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

7. Seasons Events archive Season2007-2008 Season2006-2007 Season2006-2007 Season1976-1977 7 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

8. Groups of events Events archive Season2007-2008 Cycle1 Cycle2 Cycles may contain cyclesA conference within a festival Cycle2-1 Cycle2-2 Festival Season2006-2007 8 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

9. Events Events archive Season2007-2008 Cycle1 Event:“a noteworthy happening”, usually of a limited duration with a well-defined program.A concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop Event1 An event can be part of several cyclesA concert from a series programmed during a conference Event2 Cycle:a group of cycles or of events.A concert series, a festival, a scientific conference Cycle2 Season2007-2006 9 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

10. Manifestation Events archive Season2007-2008 Cycle1 Event1 Manifestation1 Manifestation:an occurrence of an event, usually at a single date, time and place.A specific concert, talk… Manifestation2 Cycle2 Season2007-2006 10 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

11. Events and their traces Events archive Season2007-2008 brochures Cycle1 brochures Event1 program notes, contracts Manifestation1 recording(video) … may differ Manifestation2 recording(video) Part1 … single work Cycle2 … single talk Part2 … single piece Part3 Season2007-2006 11 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

12. Typology of events Artistic event Meeting Concert Dance Theater Performance Music theater Other performance Screening Exhibit, installation Event Other artistic event Talk, work analysis Scientific or technical conference Conference Other conference Music course Scientific or technical course Course Other course Other meeting Other event 12 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

13. The workflow Backups Plans the season Produces the season’sbrochure Drafts contracts Creates metadata Uploads PDF Uploads PDF Produces the web site Web site is online Produces the event’sbrochure Completes metadataUploads PDF THE MANIFESTATION Records themanifestation Uploads the recordingModifies metadata Produces online andoffline versions Validatesmodified metadata Uploads press 13 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

14. Digital formats Automaticallyproduced • Audio • preservation (uploaded) • WAV/AIFF + METS (hard disc + tape backups) • deliverystreaming • on-site MPEG-1 Layer 2 + metadata • internet MP3 excerpts, embeddedmetadata (sox, lame) • Text • preservation (uploaded) • TIFF + PDF hi res (hard disc + tape backups) • delivery • on-sitecompressed PDF • internetcompressed PDF + watermark • Metadata • internal • cidoc-crmlike • deliveryOAI harvesting • based on MODS (and Dublin Core) Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

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

16. Resource categorization and attributes <typeOfResource> (encoding) cartographiccorporateeventmixed materialmoving imagenotated musicpersonsoftwaresound 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 interprèteinstrument(iste)sensembles Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

17. 2. ACCESS, USE AND REUSE Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

18. The gateway to contemporary music resources in France: www.musiquecontemporaine.fr 2 national conservatoires 7 contemporary music composition centers 7 ensembles 3 music libraries (incl. French nat’l library) 1 music information center (MIC) 1 label (non-commercial) • National projectwith 21 partners • whoprovidemetadata • whomayproviderelated data (audio, text…) • Harvestsmetadata • about contents • about events • about people • Also hosts • metadata • data whichmayberepurposed • audio: > 500 hours of music and sometalks (free access on the internet) • text: program notes, ephemera… • Is harvested • Europeanaaggregator • French Ministry of Culture database • … Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

19. 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… Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

20. Librarycatalogue Library catalogue Librarycatalogue Soundarchives Soundarchives Soundarchives Concertnotes Concertnotes Concertnotes Biographies,articles Biographies,articles Biographies,articles Agenda ofevents Agenda ofevents Agenda ofevents Partner A Partner B Partner C Harvesting gateway organization principle Other gateway2 Gateway Other gateway1 Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

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22. On-site access Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

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24. Internet radio • Now • All hosted recordings (shuffle) • Future • Programming • Technology • Shoutcast Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

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26. Timeline Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources

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28. 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 emailmf@ircam.fr Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources