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

Handling sound resources from creation to preservation and use within a larger context Resources Physical Digital Events Workflow From creation… …to preservation …to online delivery Use Search Access Reuse IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 2

The context: IRCAM and its Multimedia Library IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 3 Music productionR&D Multimedia Library Commercial assets Physical Books, scores, periodicals, cds, films… Digital Databases Director Own production Physical Books, papers, ephemera… Digital As above + audio, video, Information (events) Education Web Usage Workflow

1. WORKFLOW IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 4

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… IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 5

Event 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 IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 6 ArchiProd Describe Preserve Deliver

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 7 Seasons 7 Season Season Events archive Season Season

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 8 Groups of events 8 Season Events archive Season Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Festival Cycle 2-1 Cycle 2-2 Cycles may contain cycles A conference within a festival

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 9 Events 9 Event 1 Season Events archive Season Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Event: a noteworthy happening, usually of a limited duration with a well-defined program. A concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop Event 2 Cycle: a group of cycles or of events. A concert series, a festival, a scientific conference An event can be part of several cycles A concert from a series programmed during a conference

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 10 Manifestation 10 Manifestation 1 Manifestation 2 Event 1 Season Events archive Season Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Manifestation: an occurrence of an event, usually at a single date, time and place. A specific concert, talk…

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 11 Events and their traces 11 Manifestation 1 Manifestation 2 Event 1 Season Events archive Season Cycle 1 Cycle 2 brochures program notes, contracts Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 recording (video) … single work … single talk … single piece … may differ

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 12 Typology of events 12 Event Artistic event Meeting Screening Exhibit, installation Other artistic event Talk, work analysis Scientific or technical conference Other conference Music course Scientific or technical course Other course Other meeting Other event Conference Course Performance Concert Dance Music theater Other performance Theater

IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 13 The workflow TimeArtistic dept.Communications dept. Production dept.Multimedia LibraryThe System 13 Plans the season Produces the seasons brochure Drafts contracts Creates metadata Uploads PDF Produces the events brochure THE MANIFESTATION Records the manifestation Uploads the recording Modifies metadata Uploads PDF Validates modified metadata Produces online and offline versions Completes metadata Uploads PDF Produces the web site BackupsBackups Web site is online Uploads press

Digital formats Audio preservation (uploaded) WAV/AIFF + METS (hard disc + tape backups) delivery streaming on-site MPEG-1 Layer 2 + metadata internet MP3 excerpts, embedded metadata (sox, lame) Text preservation (uploaded) TIFF + PDF hi res (hard disc + tape backups) delivery on-site compressed PDF internet compressed PDF + watermark Metadata internal cidoc-crm like delivery OAI harvesting based on MODS (and Dublin Core) IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 14 Automatically produced

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 IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 15

Resource categorization and attributes IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 16 (encoding) cartographic corporate event mixed material moving image notated music person software sound recording sound recording-musical sound recording-non musical still image text 3D object (media) cassette… concert conférence disque compact… document numérique document imprimé document manuscrit émission exposition groupe dévénements microfiche organisme personne … (nature of resource) adresse atelier bibliothèque… biographie catalogue centre de recherche colloque dictionnaire éditeur festival formation master class monographie note de programme notice dœuvre salle de spectacle … (rôle, instrumentation) auteur compositeur conférencier intervenant musicien interprète instrument(iste)s ensembles

2. ACCESS, USE AND REUSE IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 17

The gateway to contemporary music resources in France: National project with 21 partners who provide metadata who may provide related data (audio, text…) Harvests metadata about contents about events about people Also hosts metadata data which may be repurposed audio: > 500 hours of music and some talks (free access on the internet) text: program notes, ephemera… Is harvested Europeana aggregator French Ministry of Culture database … IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 18 2 national conservatoires 7 contemporary music composition centers 7 ensembles 3 music libraries (incl. French natl library) 1 music information center (MIC) 1 label (non-commercial)

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… IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 19

Harvesting gateway organization principle IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 20 Gateway Library catalogue Agenda of events Sound archives Biographies, articles Concert notes Partner C Library catalogue Agenda of events Sound archives Biographies, articles Concert notes Partner A Library catalogue Agenda of events Sound archives Biographies, articles Concert notes Partner B Other gateway 1 Other gateway 2

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On-site access IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 22

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Internet radio Now All hosted recordings (shuffle) Future Programming Technology Shoutcast IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 24

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Timeline IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 26

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References The gateway of French contemporary music resources Specs and technical documentation This presentation This speakers IASA 2009, Athens Music information: towards a converging view of physical, digital and temporal resources 28