DLFM

The Listening Experience Database (LED) is a project that gathers documented evidence of listening to music across cultural and historical contexts. Its underlying information system relies on the principles and practices of Linked Data, including a ...

The audio archives of the CNRS-Musée de l'Homme are among the most important collections of ethnomusicological recordings in Europe. As the number of collections increase and as new audio technologies arise, questions about the best approaches for ...

Despite the recasting of the web's technical capabilities through Web 2.0, conventional digital library software architectures---from which many of our leading Music Digital Libraries (MDLs) are formed---result in digital resources that are, ...

Conducting experiments on large scale musical datasets often requires the definition of a dataset as a first step in the analysis process. This is a classification task, but metadata providing the relevant information is not always available or reliable ...

The transformative promise of the digital humanities is not without problems. This paper looks at digital archive curation using a database of 19th-century London concerts as a case study. We examine some of the barriers faced in its development, ...

The HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) consists of digitized print materials contributed from the collections of some of the foremost research libraries of the world. The HTDL contains over 11 million volumes comprising approximately 3.9 billion pages. ...

Large quantities of scanned music are now available in public digital music libraries. However, the information in such sources is represented as pixel data in images rather than symbolic information about the notes of a piece of music, and therefore it ...

Each music tradition has its own characteristics in terms of melodic, rhythmic and timbral properties as well as semantic understandings. To analyse, discover and explore these culture-specific characteristics, we need music collections which are ...

This paper introduces a corpus of primary sources associated with the Elizabethan composer-poet Thomas Whythorne, including musical and literary works, autobiographical and historical texts, and images. Besides their value for humanities scholars, they ...

This Paper describes a study, which is, as part of the Transforming Musicology-Project, exploring the possibilities, problems and further perspectives of the use of digital libraries (amongst other digital technologies) on a musicological investigation ...

The most urgent challenge in the field of digital libraries is the demand for powerful and efficient systems which allow for integrated access to huge amounts of digital content.

Recent initiatives have demonstrated how cultural heritage and digital ...

Research corpora are fundamental for the computational study of music. The design criteria with which to create them is a research task in itself. These corpora need to be well suited for the specific research problems to be addressed. Since these ...

This paper presents our initial work on collection of recordings and related metadata with a view to the creation of digital library content for analysis of stylistic characteristics in Irish traditional music. We focus on ornamentation as this is a ...

The abstract nature of music makes it intrinsically hard to describe. To alleviate this problem we use well known songs or artists as a reference to describe new music. Music information research has mimicked this behavior by introducing search systems ...

This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major ...

Digital music libraries and collections are growing quickly and are increasingly made available for research. We argue that the use of large data collections will enable a better understanding of music performance and music in general, which will ...

This paper discusses several technical challenges in using crowdsourcing for distributed correction interfaces. The specific scenario under investigation involves the implementation of a crowd-sourced adaptive optical music recognition system (Single ...

While good practices are emerging with respect to publication of data alongside research outputs, we argue that computational descriptions (e.g. scripts, software and workflows) should also be included so that research can be interpreted, reconstructed ...

We present a workflow processing and data storage system that has been developed to store the computational analysis of large databases of music-related documents. Documents can consist of any music-related data, for example, audio files or symbolic ...

This paper outlines a Research Infrastructure for the study of Early Music. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN serves as example for the building blocks needed. The paper discusses the elements of the proposed Large Early Music Collider (LEMC), ...

Musical scores are the central resource for musicological research. Our project, Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis (SIMSSA), targets digitized music scores to design a global infrastructure for searching and analyzing music scores. ...