Mapping the Future, 28th January MultiMedia Music for All and Everywhere MUSICNETWORK Paolo Nesi Department of Systems and Informatics, University of Florence Via S. Marta 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy tel: , fax:

Mapping the Future, 28th January 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 st MUSCINETWORK OpenWorkshop Next will be in Leeds, UK, September Musik Messe, Daisy in Amsterdam, etc… Working on MUSIC4ALL Integrated Project

Mapping the Future, 28th January Paolo Nesi Department of Systems and Informatics University of Florence Thanks for your attention !