Interoperability

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Interoperability

• Michael Fingerhut
• Ircam, Paris (France)

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A few projects

• - Music Navigator 2000-?
• Ircam and partners
• ? Gateway to ethnomusicological recordings
  2004-2005
• ? Gateway to French Resources in Contemporary
  Music 2007, 2008 ? 2008
• 6th Framework Program information society
• ethnoArc Linked European Archives for Ethnomus.
  Research 2006-2008
• Past eContentPlus
• ? Dismarc Discovering Music Archives 2006-2008 ?
  2008
• ? EDL / Europeana (not The European Library) ?
  2008
• eContentPlus 2008 call
• Content
• - MuseLib
• - D.LibEReMus Digital Library of Electronic
  Resources in Music
• Services
• - Marsel Music Access, Retrieval and navigation
  Services for the European digital Library

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Issues

• Diversity of organizations and structures
• Diversity of software and systems
• Diversity of resources
• Diversity of descriptions
• Diversity of languages
• Rights

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• The Gateway to Contemporary Music Resources in
  France

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How to find (and use) resources concerning
contemporary music

• Resources
• Documents books, scores, ephemera, periodicals,
  articles, pictures, recordings, films
• Information events, people, organizations
• Spread
• Physical in libraries, archives, museums
• Online intranets/internet, web pages, databases
• Goals
• Uniform description and single-stop access seach,
  find, use
• Reduce noise and silence partition berlin,
  murs paris
• Provide online contents respecting rights
• Dont affect existing systems

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Diversity of providers

• Archive
• Conservatory
• Library
• MIC
• Producer of events
• Research center
• Studio

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Diversity of resources
Database CDMC Cité CNSMDP EIC Ircam MMM
(Online) sound archives ? ? ? ? ?
Online catalogue (books, scores, periodicals, manuscripts) ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Online calendar of events ? ? ?
Address book (people, corporate) ? ?
Online biographies, work lists and documentation ? ?
Online production notes, concert programs and notes ? ?
Online documentary files ? ? ?
Instruments ?
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Framework

• Past
• 1995 Dreams (Z39.50). 2004 Gateway to
  ethnomusicological contents. 2005 IAML talk.
• 2006
• Yearly call of Culture Ministry for digitization
  and publication of cultural contents
• Proposal by a consortium Cdmc (leader), Cité de
  la musique, Conservatoire de Paris, Eic, Ircam
  (design), Médiathèque Mahler
• 2007
• Project runs and ends 100,000 records
• New proposal Acanthes, Conservatoire de Lyon, 6
  centres of contemporary creation
• 2008
• Project runs
• eContentPlus proposal Marsel
• New national proposal?

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Two distinct but interrelated projects

• Digitization each partner individually
• Formats of data
• Description
• Publication protocols
• Preservations procedures
• Sharing the gateway
• Formats of metadata
• Exchange protocols

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Organization principle
Gateway 1
Gateway 2
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Principles well-defined and relevant sources

• Gateway to selected partners
• Periodically retrieves only relevant metadata
  harvester
• simple protocol OAI (Open Archive Initiative)
• common metadata model and language MODS
• Provides search browse features local record,
  remote contents
• Useful shortcuts mini thesaurus
• Partners make available
• The relevant metadata sets
• Add a connector to each database repository
• Provide metadata in adequate form
• Contents as available and allowed
• Referenced in the metadata
• Not copied to the gateway
• Differentiated access on-site / partners /
  everyone else

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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
• Instrumentation
• Rights of access to contents intranet/extranet/int
  ernet
• Pseudo-FRBR

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Resource categorization and attributes
lttypeOfResourcegt (encoding) cartographiccorporate
eventmixed materialmoving imagenotated
musicperson softwaresound recordingsound
recording-musicalsound recording-non
musicalstill imagetext3D object
ltformgt(media) cassetteconcertconférencedisque
compactdocument numériquedocument
imprimédocument manuscritémissionexpositiongro
upe dévénementsmicroficheorganismepersonne
ltgenregt(nature of resource) adresseatelierbibli
othèquebiographiecataloguecentre de
recherchecolloquedictionnaireéditeurfestivalf
ormationmaster classmonographienote de
programmenotice dœuvresalle de spectacle
ltrolegt(rôle, instrumentation) auteurcompositeur
conférencierintervenantmusicien
interprèteinstrument(iste)sensembles
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Home page express search, agenda. Access to
detailed search and other sections of the site.
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After an express search. Refine results (left),
access to records (center), access to contents
(right)
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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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Refinement by type of recording (conference vs.
musical work).
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Refinement by provider (and location of physical
contents or full-length audio contents).
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Refinement by person name (composer, performers,
etc.)
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Access to original record, to parent record, to
MODS source.
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Source record
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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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Example of a detailed search (of events). Other
detailed search forms available.
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Online documentation of the model usedby the
gateway.
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Project status

• Contents
• Ca. 100,000 records Google indexes 60
• Ca. 20 online contents audio video print
  manuscripts
• Current developments
• Repository for Europeana done
• Multilingualism done
• Fuller documentation www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/d
  oc
• Ongoing digitization METS for preservation
• Genericization for gateways to other kinds of
  resources
• Future
• New partners BnF, Ina
• Semantic navigation

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• Europeana

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Europeana

• Currently
• Prototype 2,000,000 objects, launches November
• Design of the real thing rich semantics and
  services
• Issues
• Flat model no associations, hierarchy
• Too few document types text, audio, video, image
• Protocols and formats OAI, ORE, SKOS, FTP

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Links

• Gateway to contemporary music resources in France
  http//www.musiquecontemporaine.fr
• The European Library http//www.theeuropeanlibrary
  .org
• Europeana http//www.europeana.eu
• Dismarc http//www.dismarc.org (no IE)