2. Project ScopeProject Scope  Creating an ontology that relates the basic information of various different musical genres  Provide up-to-date musical genres  Information including date of origins, region, and main instruments of use

3. Creating DefinitionsCreating Definitions  What is the scope of the ontology?  What terms do we need to discuss?  What are the properties of these terms?  What do you want to say about these term?

4. Definitions  Instrument - Any of various devices that can be used to produce musical tones or sound.  Music - Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.  Music Genre - An expressive style of music.  Vocal - Rendered by or intended for singing.  Time Period - The categorization of time into discrete named blocks is called periodization.

5. Is-a HierarchyIs-a Hierarchy

6. Existing WorkExisting Work  Musicontology.com  Daml.org/ontologies/276  http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html  Timeline ontology  Instrument ontology  Movie ontology

7. Similarities and DifferencesSimilarities and Differences  has similar ideas regarding genre taxonomy  Updated genres and instrument classes and subclasses  Reduced multi-inheritance  Extended information

8. Examples from OntologyExamples from Ontology

11. Applications  Extension of music ontology  Used to categorize music for both personal use and research  refine searches in musical domain