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A gateway to contemporary music resources in France. Michael Fingerhut Ircam, Paris (France). How to find (and use) resources concerning contemporary music. Resources Documents books, scores, ephemera, periodicals, articles, pictures, recordings, films…
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A gateway to contemporary music resources in France Michael Fingerhut Ircam, Paris (France)
How to find (and use) resources concerning contemporary music • Resources • Documents books, scores, ephemera, periodicals, articles, pictures, recordings, films… • Information events, people, organizations… • Spread • Physical in libraries, archives, museums… • Online intranets/internet, web pages, databases… • Goals • Single-stop access • Reduce noise and silence “partition berlin”, “murs paris” • Provide online contents respecting rights • Don’t affect existing systems www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Framework • Past • 1995 Dreams (Z39.50). 2004 Gateway to ethnomusicological contents. 2005 IAML talk. • 2006 • Yearly call of Culture Ministry for digitization of cultural contents • Proposal by a consortium Cdmc (leader), Cité de la musique, Conservatoire de Paris, Eic, Ircam (design), Médiathèque Mahler • 2007 • Project runs and ends 100,000 records • New proposal + Acanthes, Conservatoire de Lyon, 6 centres of contemporary creation • 2008 • Project runs • eContentPlus proposal • New national proposal? www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Principles: well-defined and relevant sources • Gateway to selected partners • Periodically retrieves only relevant metadata harvester • simple protocol OAI (Open Archive Initiative) • common metadata model and language MODS • Provides search & browse features local record, remote contents • Useful shortcuts mini thesaurus • Partners make available • The relevant metadata sets • Add a connector to each database repository • Provide metadata in adequate form • Contents as available and allowed • Referenced in the metadata • Not copied to the gateway • Differentiated access on-site / partners / everyone else www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
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 • Instrumentation • Rights of access to contents intranet/extranet/internet • Pseudo-FRBR www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
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 www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Home page: express search, agenda. Access to detailed search and other sections of the site. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
After an express search. Refine results (left), access to records (center), access to contents (right) www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Direct access to audio contents with embeded player. To see record, click on blue text. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Detailed record. Access to original record, to audio contents. Identification of holder. Structure. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Refinement: by type of recording (conference vs. musical work). www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Refinement: by provider (and location of physical contents or full-length audio contents). www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Refinement: by person name (composer, performers, etc.) www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Access to original record, to parent record, to MODS source. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Source record www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Indexing the Grove as if it were a repository. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Local record mentions access restrictions to the Grove record (subscription required). www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Example of a detailed search (of events). Other detailed search forms available. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Online documentation of the model usedby the gateway. www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
Project status • Contents • Ca. 100,000 records Google indexes 60% • Ca. 20% online contents audio video print manuscripts • Current developments • Multilingualism • Fuller documentation www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/doc • Ongoing digitization METS for preservation • Genericization For gateways to other kinds of resources • Rights • Future • New partners BnF, Ina • Semantic navigation • Go European(a) www.musiquecontemporaine.fr