MultiMedia Music for All and Everywhere

1. MultiMedia Music for All and Everywhere MUSICNETWORK Paolo Nesi www.interactivemusicnetwork.org Department of Systems and Informatics, University of FlorenceVia S. Marta 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy tel: +39-055-4796523, fax: +39-055-4796363 nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it, nesi@dsi.unifi.it http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

2. MUSICNETWORK • Bringing Music Industry towards the Multimedia Interactive age • Analyzing the state of the art, standards, etc., and proposing new solutions, guidelines, and areas of work • Reducing the gap from Technology Providers and Consumers • Organizing workshops and conferences • 10 working groups Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

3. General analysis • Disaster of Musical Content providers • Mainly B2C, law of the 90/10, content sensitive, • legal aspects vz technological aspects • Music is related to both business and culture • These aspects cannot be separately managed as in the past • Lack of real model for Musical Content • What is good for documents or other multimedia is not good for music. This has been demonstrated several times • Significant amount of digitized Music Collections • Music actors are now ready to start to work together • Content owner, content providers, Content distributors….. • Collecting societies, legal bodies, …. • Information Technology actors for content management Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

4. MUSICNETWORK • WG coding music notation, conversion, lyric, modern notation, xml, .... • WG music for libraries, heritage, classification, ID, retrieval, …. • WG multimedia standards for music coding, ... • WG distribution models, devices, mobile,.. • WG protection, encryption, watermark, DRM... • WG accessibility, music coding for print impaired people, Braille, Spoken Music, special interfaces,.. • WG imaging, coding images of music sheets, restoring, OMR…. • WG Culture, cultural heritage aspects of music • WG Audio, audio processing and analysis, trans-coding, query by content • WG Education, educational aspects of music, pedago Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

5. What is Needed to cope with general issues • Make it simpler and cheaper for all • Several levels • Content producers: IT specialist, designer, etc. • intermediate: archivists, music distributors • end-users: students, music lovers, user at home • Make content and fruition multilingual and multicultural • Make technology transparent • Make content interoperable • Make solutions and business model more flexible • Make content production faster • Make transaction models safer • … Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

6. Multimedia Interactive Music • Music is evolving towards Multimedia Interactive Music • excerpting • content customization (transposition, editing), versioning • multilingual and multicultural aspects • adding notes, expressions, fingerings, etc. • adding bookmarks, hyperlinks, etc. • Integration of: • cataloguing information: metadata, etc.. • audio, video, scores, images, lyric, etc. • synchronizations, animations, histories, authoring, etc. • new functionalities for integration and interactivity • new rights to be controlled with DRM, every day…. Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

7. How to Cope with ? • Putting together all the actors of the value chain • Content providers, owners, distributors, etc… • Collecting societies, legal bodies, etc… • IT industries, research, users, etc… • Working on issues with Enabling Technologies • Making cheaper content production • Increasing content safeness • Managing Multi-lingual and multi-cultural aspects • Producing Concrete business models • Building a common framework for experimenting common solutions: • Common open platform • Protection vz Open Source, issues • Validating them by using demonstrators on the field • European unified music content network providers • Educational • Valorization of cultural heritage • Music for All and everywhere Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

8. Present identified Issues • Multimedia Music Notation Modeling • Notation, imaging, audio, documents, video, cataloguing, etc. • Synchronization and integration • New and suitable Standards • Content Creation • Good models for content: editorial aspects, usability,.. • Multi-channel, multi-lingual and multi-cultural • Accelerating content creation process, automating process • Content Fruition • Easy to use • Several easy and new functionalities are needed… • Pervasive: i-TV, Mobiles, etc… • etc. Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

9. Present identified Issues • Content management • Collecting and localizing • Sharing and maintaining ownership • Integrating and maintaining ownership • Multilevel retrieval by content • … • Content Distribution Technologies • Protection and DRM • viable and sustainable business models, • Exploitation methodologies • Multichannel distribution • Multilingual and multicultural localization • … Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

10. MUSICNETWORK Present activities • Assessing present solutions and standards • Writing Guidelines if its possible • Highlighting real issues that have to be solved for bringing Music technology in the new age in 5-10 years of real work • Working group activity day by day • 10 working groups • About 200 institutions of the whole value chain • Workshops and meetings, • WEDELMUSIC 2002 + 1st MUSCINETWORK OpenWorkshop • Next will be in Leeds, UK, September 2003 • +++Musik Messe, Daisy in Amsterdam, etc… • Working on MUSIC4ALL Integrated Project Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003

11. Thanks for yourattention ! Paolo Nesi Department of Systems and Informatics University of Florencenesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it, nesi@dsi.unifi.it http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi Mapping the Future, 28th January 2003