1 A Collaborative Music Information Retrieval / Music Digital Library Research Model: A Briefing J. Stephen Downie, Ph.D. Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 26 May 2004

2 Two Paths to Making MIR/MDL Implementations a Reality HUMIRS: Human Use of Music Information Retrieval Systems IMIRSEL: International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory Co-operative projects involving GSLIS, Music Library and NCSA at UIUC Funding secured from National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

3 IMIRSEL: First Principles 1.Security for the music materials 2.Accessibility for international, domestic and internal researchers 3.Sufficient computing and storage infrastructure for the computationally- and data-intensive MIR/MDL techniques examined

4 IMIRSEL: Secure-Yet Accessible- Evaluation Environment

5 IMIRSEL Network Configuration

6 Workflow Modeling (D2K)

7 Some MIR Resources MIRBIB –A searchable/browsable collection of MIR papers – MIR Systems –Access to a variety of MIR projects/demos – / / ISMIR –Access to ISMIR conference info and links –

8 Some MIR Demos Tuneserver/Melodyhound –A QBH system from Contour-based (Parson’s code) – MELDEX –A substantial collection of music with a variety of options – Themefinder –Based on Humdrum’s thema command. Musical themes or incipits. Collections: Classical, Folk Songs, Motets. –