General Ontology for Linguistic Description
Music Description Ontologies? Much more complicated situation because of commercial music industry interests Much more complicated situation because of commercial music industry interests Most ontologies designed for commercial music (albums, tracks, composers etc ) or Western music notation (diatonic scale etc) Most ontologies designed for commercial music (albums, tracks, composers etc ) or Western music notation (diatonic scale etc) Most recent ethnomusicological discourse concentrates on social context rather than description or analysis and suspicious of universalist approaches Most recent ethnomusicological discourse concentrates on social context rather than description or analysis and suspicious of universalist approaches Some current initiatives e.g. EU MusicNetwork Some current initiatives e.g. EU MusicNetwork
Issues for semantic web Small-scale specialist archive with few staff and precarious funding - not resourced for huge amount of work for RDF markup Small-scale specialist archive with few staff and precarious funding - not resourced for huge amount of work for RDF markup Curator-intensive - cannot be readily automated Curator-intensive - cannot be readily automated Need to motivate and involve researchers and communities in description as well as high-level ICT advisors Need to motivate and involve researchers and communities in description as well as high-level ICT advisors Present highest priority salvage of endangered media Present highest priority salvage of endangered media Lack of appropriate ontologies especially for music Lack of appropriate ontologies especially for music
But… We have a good foundation - well-structured data and metadata (for whole-item level) conforming to international standards We have a good foundation - well-structured data and metadata (for whole-item level) conforming to international standards We are in conversation with international disciplinary communities through OLAC, EMELD, DELAMAN We are in conversation with international disciplinary communities through OLAC, EMELD, DELAMAN Our collection is of high cultural heritage and scholarly value, of interest to international community Our collection is of high cultural heritage and scholarly value, of interest to international community We are motivated to learn more from other large- scale distributed digital data archives We are motivated to learn more from other large- scale distributed digital data archives
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