an integrated management system for music archives digitization, preservation and online publication...

An integrated management system for music archives digitization, preservation and online publication

Michael Fingerhut

Ircam, Paris (France)

Minerva 2008, Jerusalem

An integrated management system for music archiveshttp://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/Fingerhut08g/

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IRCAM and its Multimedia Library IRCAM founded 1976 by Pierre Boulez

R&D acoustics, compositional tools, dsp, musicology, real-time processing… → publications and conferences

Education short- and long-term courses in computer music and composition → conferences, concerts

Artistic direction commissions, concerts, festival, tours Production performances → concerts

Multimedia Library founded 1995 Specialized library (contemporary) music, sciences, technology,

law, sociology, philosophy… → IAML (Newsletter editor, ontology workgroup)

Archive IRCAM’s musical and scientific heritage → specialized management systems (Archiprod, Articles)

Engineering digital libraries, metadata, interoperability, information retrieval, digital conservation and publication, in-house, national and int’l projects → newswatch, Centre Pompidou Virtuel, French Gateway, Europeana, ISMIR



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Ircam’s musical heritage

Preserve Recordings past and future Related documentation ephemera, program notes Structure events, works, movements… Context historical, legal

Provide access Qua archive With related ressources at Ircam, elsewhere



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Model components

Entities Events concerts, festivals, seasons… People Corporate orchestras, choirs… Venues concert and conference halls Documents audio, video, text…

Relations Is part of event of a festival Is a trace of recording of a manifestation Roles author, composer, librettist, performer…



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Event Many types

Artistic Concert, dance, film projection, opera… Concert cycles, festivals…

Scientific Lectures, panels, talks, workshops… Conferences, courses,

Mixed master classes…

Variable duration and occurrence Once/repeated On a single day, hour and place or not

Split Long

Fixed contents may vary Repeated talk, performance Work in progress

Structured Seasons Cycles Conferences

ArchiProd Describe

Preserve

Deliver



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Seasons

Season2007-2008

Season2006-2007

Events archive

Season2006-2007

Season1976-1977



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Groups of events

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2006-2007

Cycle1

Cycle2

Festival

Cycle2-1

Cycle2-2

Cycles may contain cyclesA conference within a festival



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Manifestations

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

Event: “a noteworthy happening”, usually of a limited duration with a well-defined program.A concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop

Event2

Cycle: a group of cycles or of events.A concert series, a festival, a scientific conference

An event can be part of several cyclesA concert from a series programmed during a conference



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Manifestation

Manifestation1

Manifestation2

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

Manifestation: an occurrence of an event, usually at a single date, time and place.A specific concert, talk…



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Typology of events

Événement

Événement artistique

Rencontre

Projection

Exposition, installation

Autre événement artistique

Conférence – analyse d’une œuvre

Conférence scientifique et/ou technique

Autre conférence

Formation musicale

Formation scientifique et/ou technique

Autre formation

Autre rencontre

Autre événement

Conférence

Formation

Spectacle

Concert

Spectacle chorégraphique

Spectacle de théâtre musical

Autre spectacle

Spectacle théâtral



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Events and their traces

Manifestation1

Manifestation2

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

brochures

brochures

program notes, contracts

Part1

Part2

Part3

recording(video)

recording(video)

… single work

… single talk

… single piece

… may differ



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Digitization

Retrospective 1995-2006

in-house preservation mixed CD (audio + structured metadata) access on-site MPEG-1 Layer 2 uploads imports

2006- sub-contracting preservation hard disc (audio 44.1 KHz+METS), backups access on-site (MPEG-1 Layer 2+metadata), internet (MP3

excerpts+metadata) uploads imports

Current material in-house direct-to-disc as above uploads on-demand



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Formats

Preservation Audio: WAV 44,1 KHz, 16 bits or better Images: TIFF Text: PDF Metadata: METS

Online access Audio

Local: MPEG1 Layer 2, full recording. Partners: MP3 high rate, full recording. Internet: MP3, excerpt.

Text PDF

Metadata MODS (Dublin Core)

Protocol OAI



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The workflow

Time Artistic dept. Communications dept.

Production dept. Multimedia Library The System

Plans the season

Produces the season’sbrochure

Drafts contracts

Creates metadata

Uploads PDF

Produces the event’sbrochure

THE MANIFESTATIONRecords the

manifestation

Uploads the recordingModifies metadata

Uploads PDF

Validatesmodified metadata

Produces online andoffline versions

Completes metadataUploads PDF

Produces the web site

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Web site is online

Uploads press



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Metadata

Fields in a database Mapping to MODS (and Dublin Core)

Extended Harvestable for online access OAI

Encapsulation in METS



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Metadata model: simplified MODS Derived from MARC

Humanly readable XML Easy conversion from any schemes mostly optional “fields” Keeps associations people/rôles, subject/author/title…

Hierarchical ad inf. Express structure collections/items, cds/tracks, meta-

events/events… In the record/from record to record

Extensible enumerated values, elements Events Instrumentation Rights of access to contents intranet/extranet/internet Pseudo-FRBR



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Resource categorization and attributes

<typeOfResource> (encoding)

cartographiccorporateeventmixed materialmoving imagenotated musicperson softwaresound recordingsound recording-musicalsound recording-non musicalstill imagetext3D object

<form>(media)

cassette…concertconférencedisque compact…document numériquedocument imprimédocument manuscritémissionexpositiongroupe d’événementsmicroficheorganismepersonne…

<genre>(nature of resource)

adresseatelierbibliothèque…biographiecataloguecentre de recherchecolloquedictionnaireéditeurfestivalformationmaster classmonographienote de programmenotice d’œuvresalle de spectacle…

<role>(rôle, instrumentation)

auteurcompositeurconférencierintervenantmusicien interprète

instrument(iste)sensembles



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Back officeManifestation view Date, time, place People, corporate/rôles



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Back officeManifestation part: a musical work Title, subtitle, duration… Type Musical/non musical recording People, corporate/rôles Notes, transfer date…

Uncontrolled fields

Controls:- names- titles- rôles- dates, times- durations



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Back officeManifestation part: a talk Title, subtitle, duration… Type Musical/non musical recording People, corporate/rôles Notes, transfer date…

Uncontrolled fields



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Back officeEntities (drop-down menu), event linked view Basic, by table Index, full-text

in online view



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Back officeEvent tree



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Online accessCollaboration with other systems Archiprod produces

Full recording audio server MPEG 1 Layer 2 Excerpt audio server mp3 Metadata OAI repository MODS

Addresses of audio streams Access rights

Gateway(s) provide Metadata indicating allowable access(es) Player for excerpt



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Direct access to audio contents with embeded player. To see record, click on blue text.



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Detailed record. Access to original record, to audio contents. Identification of holder. Structure.



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Indexing the Grove as if it were a repository.



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Local record mentions access restrictions to the Grove record (subscription required).



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On-site access to a concert sound archive and its program notes



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Present and future Retrospective

digitization tapes, program notes, “old” cds cataloguing events 15 years done; 16 years to go.

Context seamless interconnection of in-house databases Archiprod archive of performances Brahms composers’ bios Mustica production technical documentation of works Loris scores, books… Web site future events

Projects Now: gateway www.musiquecontemporaine.fr Later: independent referentials and ontologies

Web services Ontologies IAML working group

Shared hosting for partner institutions



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References

The Multimedia Library web site http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/

The Library’s newswatch servicehttp://veille.ircam.fr/

IRCAM’s institutional web sitehttp://www.ircam.fr/

The gateway of French contemporary music resources http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/

IAML’s Newsletter http://www.iaml.info/publications/newsletter/

The ISMIR web sitehttp://www.ismir.net/

an integrated management system for music archives digitization, preservation and online publication...

Documents

online preservation

program notesstructure

concert series

operaconcert cycles

group of cycles

choirsvenues concert

specific concert

computer music