1. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 1 MUSICNETWORK, implication for local interest Paolo Nesi www.interactivemusicnetwork.org musictnetwork@dsi.unifi.it Department of Systems and Informatics, University of Florence Via S. Marta 3, 50139, Firenze, Italy tel: +39-055-4796523, fax: +39-055-4796363 nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it, nesi@dsi.unifi.it http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi

2. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 2MUSICNETWORK funded by the European Commission to help bring music into the interactive multimedia era is a Thematic Network, a virtual centre of excellence to bring the music industry, content providers and research institutions together draws on the assets and mutual interests of these actors to exploit the potential of new technologies, tools, products, formats and models

3. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 3 The role of MUSICNETWORK Content producers and owners Content Aggregators/Distributors Content Users Services & Tools Systems & Networks Legal aspects Fairs workshops and conferences

4. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 4 MUSICNETWORK Goals Bring music into the interactive multimedia era by: Reducing the gap between technology providers and technology exploiters Better understanding the end user requirements Integrating Models and Formats Solving technological and integration problems Opening –New Services and multimedia music functionalities –New Markets –Accelerate the digitization process

5. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 5 OPEN to ALL Since October 2002 >500 Participants >200 Firms/Institutions >180 Qualified Institutions 49 states Etc..

6. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 6 MUSICNETWORK Activities Coordinating Experts –Creating and supporting Working groups on the main aspects Focused discussions on user needs and requests –Analysis of the state of the art, best practices, standards, new models, etc. –Requirements analysis for each field and for each type of end user and institution –Integration of the working groups of experts –Training on MUSICNETWORK events –Etc.

7. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 7 MUSICNETWORK Activities WEB Services: –Forum for collaborative work –Problems clinique –Archive for documents, test cases, applications –Valorization of participant’s activities –Visualization of Participant www pages Dissemination of information and innovation via: –Fairs, conferences, workshops, mailing lists, etc… –Tutorial notes, Reports, documents, articles, flyers, –Newsletter, etc..

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9. 9 Third International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music WEDELMUSIC 2003 Third International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music 15 th – 17 th September 2003 Web: www.wedelmusic.org/wedelmusic2003 Email: wdm03@leeds.ac.uk MUSICNETWORK Open Workshop 17 th – 18 th September 2003 Web: www.interactivemusicnetwork.org Email: musicnetwork@dsi.unifi.it University of Leeds Scientific Research in Music Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music (ICSRiM) University of Leeds School of Music, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Web: www.icsrim.org.uk Email: info@icsrim.org.uk

10. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 10 Working Groups 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, pedagogical…

11. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 11 Institutions and end-users archives and collectors: –music libraries, multimedia distributors, documentation centers, audiovisual/multimedia archives, music-related museums content professionals for metadata: –librarians, archivists, cataloguers (including providers of commercial/trade/retail catalogues) content users: –musicologists, music schools and conservatories, musicians, players, performers, orchestras, chamber music groups, music teachers and students (educational sectors), visually impaired people, universities, broadcasting agencies, audiophiles, music amateurs…

12. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 12 Educational institutions To attract more students for classical and other genres of music, different ages, different skills, etc. To reduce the costs for music education To have a large offer in terms of educational type and paradigms To provide to their students interactive music, music courseware with innovative pedagogically driven functionalities To distribute music and courseware by using innovative technologies To get content from the publishers, faster, cheaper,.. To share content and courseware with other institutions To exploit the content contained in the archives, …..

13. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 13 Archives and Libraries To digitize musical content, integrate, deliver, at low cost To provide content: –integrated and interactive, new functionalities, indexing, … –increasing it with that coming from other archives or directly from publishers, etc.. –exploiting e-commerce and respecting copyright with safe DRM mechanisms To manage content: –Digital Asset Management –Query in their several forms, query by content, etc. –Sharing content with other archives –Managing annotation for the users, trace the usage,… To Exploit content: –Sharing among archives, etc.. –Creating CDs, –Producing educational content by integration

14. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 14Orchestras They are a special case of institution with specific end users To get music notation content: –Flexible and that can be manipulated Managing versioning: rehearsals, annotations, etc. Cooperative work in orchestras,… –coming from archives or directly from publishers, etc.. –Management of the copyright and renting periods To manage content: –Digital Asset Management –Query in their several forms, query by content, etc. –Sharing content with other archives

15. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 15 Final Users musicologists musicians, players, performers music teachers students “impaired people” universities broadcasting agencies audiophiles and music amateurs Most is related to the channel from Archives to educational institutions and from these to end-user

16. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 16 Final Users Musicologists –Access to archives, wide range of music sources and content, –Music notation and audio: comparison, music analysis tools, etc. –Query by content: melody and metadata, … –music notation manipulation musicians, players, performers –Access to archives, music notation and audio files or video as examples –music notation manipulation for arranging, transposing, editing, etc. –Audio processing tools

17. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 17 Final Users music teachers –Integration with cultural and historical aspects –Access to archives, music notation and audio for examples, Video, documents, basic pool of exercises, etc. –music notation manipulation for arranging, transposing, etc. –Models for Music tuition with the new technologies Tools for producing music-based courseware –New paradigms for music tuition and quality assessment Tools for music tuition and assessment

18. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 18 Final Users Students –Access to archives and courseware –music notation with audio and videos for examples, –music notation manipulation for arranging, transposing, etc. –Cultural and historical content related to music pieces –Tools for studying historical context –Tools for self play training and assessment –Tools for understanding Music Theory and ear training –Managing annotations and changes, etc.. impaired people –The same needs as above according to their role –Uniform access to music content –Specific user interface, Braille music, spoken music, multichannel interface, etc.

19. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 19 Final Users Universities –Teachers and students as above –More cultural aspects broadcasting agencies –Getting content from archives, DRM and protection management aspects Fast processing and acquisition –Format conversion, high quality content audiophiles and music amateurs –High quality audio –Getting content from any archive –Query by humming

20. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 20 What is Needed to cope with general issues Make it available, 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 –…

21. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 21 Multimedia Interactive Music Music is evolving towards Multimedia Interactive Music –excerpting –content customization (transposition, editing), versioning multilingual and multicultural aspects –adding notes, expressions, fingerings, adding bookmarks, hyperlinks, etc. –Indexing…. 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….

22. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 22 Present identified Issues Multimedia Music Notation Modeling –Notation, imaging, audio, documents, video, cataloguing, etc. –Synchronization and integration, indexing,.. –New and suitable Standards: MPEG, etc. –Processors for score images, audio, notation,…. tools Content production, integration and distribution –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 tools –Several easier and new functionalities are needed… –Pervasive: i-TV, Mobiles, etc… –etc.

23. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 23 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 transaction and business models, Exploitation methodologies –Multi-channel distribution: sat, Internet, off line, etc.. –Multi-lingual and multicultural localization –…

24. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 24 WG current activities Starting methodology definition and collection of test cases to assess OMR (Imaging WG) Starting methodology definition and collection of test cases to assess music notation software (notation and standards) Review & Contributing to Mpeg 4, 7 and 21 in the content of Music: the integration of music notation model for the multimedia age (notation + standards) Review of tools and models for information retrieval (libraries)

25. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 25 WG current activities Review and analysis of distribution models and protection aspects for multimedia content and tools (distribution and protection) Review of business models and market driving forces for music distribution (distribution), for instance the case of iTune…. Reviewing standards and tools for Visually impaired people: Braille Music (accessibility, notation), Spoken Music, etc.. ………. ……

26. Heritage for All, 2-3 June 2003 26 Paolo Nesi www.interavtivemusicnetwork.org Department of Systems and Informatics University of Florence nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it, nesi@dsi.unifi.it http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi Thanks for your attention !