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General Ontology for Linguistic Description. Music Description Ontologies?. Much more complicated situation because of commercial music industry interests Most ontologies designed for commercial music (albums, tracks, composers etc ) or Western music notation (diatonic scale etc)
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Music Description Ontologies? • Much more complicated situation because of commercial music industry interests • Most ontologies designed for commercial music (albums, tracks, composers etc ) or Western music notation (diatonic scale etc) • Most recent ethnomusicological discourse concentrates on social context rather than description or analysis and suspicious of universalist approaches • Some current initiatives e.g. EU MusicNetwork
Issues for semantic web • Small-scale specialist archive with few staff and precarious funding - not resourced for huge amount of work for RDF markup • Curator-intensive - cannot be readily automated • Need to motivate and involve researchers and communities in description as well as high-level ICT advisors • Present highest priority salvage of endangered media • Lack of appropriate ontologies especially for music
But… • We have a good foundation - well-structured data and metadata (for whole-item level) conforming to international standards • We are in conversation with international disciplinary communities through OLAC, EMELD, DELAMAN • Our collection is of high cultural heritage and scholarly value, of interest to international community • We are motivated to learn more from other large-scale distributed digital data archives
PARADISEC gratefully acknowledges support from: • Partner Universities (Sydney, Melbourne, ANU, UNE) • Australian Research Council LIEF scheme • Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (SORRT testbed) • Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing • Grangenet • ANU Internet Futures
Contact us • http://www.paradisec.org.au • Linda.Barwick@paradisec.org.au (Director) • Nicholas.Thieberger@paradisec.org.au (Project Manager)
Relevant URLs • PARADISEC website http://paradisec.org.au/ • PARADISEC repository login http://store.apac.edu.au/cgi-bin/pdsc-v3.0.cgi/login • PARADISEC streaming trial http://paradisec.org.au/streamingtrial.html • Transcript page image trial http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/~gavan/lana/hdms.htm • EMELD General Ontology for Linguistic Descriptionhttp://www.emeld.org/tools/ontology.cfm