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Ontologies for music from a digital library practitioner’s perspective

Ontologies for music from a digital library practitioner’s perspective. Jenn Riley Indiana University Digital Library Program IAML Annual Conference June 19, 2006. A vision for Web-based music ontologies. Machine-readable Multilingual Faceted structure Wide coverage

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Ontologies for music from a digital library practitioner’s perspective

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  1. Ontologies for music from a digital library practitioner’s perspective Jenn Riley Indiana University Digital Library Program IAML Annual Conference June 19, 2006

  2. A vision for Web-based music ontologies • Machine-readable • Multilingual • Faceted structure • Wide coverage • Created and updated quickly and easily • Moving the catalog from just a “finding” system to a “research” system

  3. Machine-readable • Allows integration into software systems • Assists cataloging • Eases data entry • Enforces data integrity • Assists searching and browsing • Lead-in term mapping • Narrower term expansion • Broadening or refining a result set • Related term suggestions • Requires vocabularies to adhere to defined structure

  4. Multilingual • Possible with the move from a heading as an identifier to a transparent ID • If desired, implementations could choose a preferred language, perhaps even for individual terms • The developing Library of Congress/OCLC Virtual International Authority File may be a good model

  5. Should separate out: Instrumentation Genre Topic Language Geography Etc… Form/genre/style will be problematic Necessary for: Building “helpful” cataloging applications Data quality control More powerful end-user searching End-user browsing by category Faceted structure may imply postcoordination Faceted structure

  6. Wide coverage • Will be of interest and utility to communities beyond music libraries (including scholars) • Must include: • Non-Western musics • “Popular” music • Etc… • Allow evolution over time to respond to changes in musical style, knowledge, and scholarship

  7. Ease of creation and maintenance • Creation • Make use of existing data • Some facets may already exist from other communities • Experiment with automated methods to suggest terms & structure, then editing by experts • Maintenance • Allow easy integration of new terms into the existing syndetic structure • Networked environment makes it more feasible to maintain one central copy of data to which all applications connect • Should explore open models allowing contributions by many communities

  8. Moving from a finding system to a research system • Moving beyond just bibliographic data — the work, not just the publication • Enabling new sorts of discovery • Not just vocabularies: • Related works • Gender of composer • Date/place of composition • Etc.!

  9. Keep the conversation going… • jenlrile@indiana.edu • These presentation slides: <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/iaml2006/ontologies.ppt>

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