1. The IRCAM Médiathèque : a physico-digital music archive and library Michael Fingerhut Ircam, Paris (France)

2. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 2 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 IRCAMs musical and scientific heritage Archiprod Engineering digital libraries, metadata, interoperability, information retrieval, digital conservation and publication, in- house, national and intl projects newswatch, IRCAMs web sites, Centre Pompidou Virtuel, French Gateway, The European Library, Europeana, ISMIR, Aga Khan Development Network…

3. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 3 Digitization of sound archives for preservation and publication at Ircam: formats and description 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

4. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 4 4 Seasons Season 2007-2008 Season 2006-2007 Events archive Season 2006-2007 Season 1976-1977

5. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 5 5 Groups of events Season 2007-2008 Events archive Season 2006-2007 Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Festival Cycle 2-1 Cycle 2-2 Cycles may contain cycles A conference within a festival

6. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 6 6 Manifestations Event 1 Season 2007-2008 Events archive Season 2007-2006 Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Event: a noteworthy happening, usually of a limited duration with a well-defined program. A concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop Event 2 Cycle: a group of cycles or of events. A concert series, a festival, a scientific conference An event can be part of several cycles A concert from a series programmed during a conference

7. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 7 7 Manifestation Manifestation 1 Manifestation 2 Event 1 Season 2007-2008 Events archive Season 2007-2006 Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Manifestation: an occurrence of an event, usually at a single date, time and place. A specific concert, talk…

8. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 8 8 The traces Manifestation 1 Manifestation 2 Event 1 Season 2007-2008 Events archive Season 2007-2006 Cycle 1 Cycle 2 brochures program notes, contracts Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 recording … single work … single talk … single piece … may differ

9. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 9 9 Typology of events Événement Événement artistique Rencontre Projection Exposition, installation Autre événement artistique Conférence – analyse dune 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

10. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 10 Towards an ontology Types Event, manifestation, work, person, corporate, rôle, place, document… Relations (work, person, rôle), (event, place, date)…

11. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 11

12. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 12 Metadata components: manifestation. General information Date, time, place People, corporate/rôles

13. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 13 Metadata components: manifestation. Per-part information Title, subtitle, duration… Type Musical/non musical recording People, corporate/rôles Notes, transfer date… Uncontrolled fields Controls: - names - titles - rôles - dates, times - durations

14. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 14 Metadata components: manifestation. Per-part information Title, subtitle, duration… Type Musical/non musical recording People, corporate/rôles Notes, transfer date… Uncontrolled fields

15. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 15 Formats Preservation Audio: WAV 44,1 KHz, 16 bits or better Images: TIFF Metadata: METS Online access Audio Local: MPEG1 Layer 2, full recording. Partners: MP3 high rate, full recording. Internet: MP3, excerpt. Text PDF Metadata MODS

16. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 16 Looking for contents: search Basic, by table Index, full-text in online view

17. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 17 Looking for contents: browse event tree

18. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 18 Current contents and its preservation Metadata 1,230 events more to go 7,600 works 3,000 people composers, performers… 100 locations Data Over 1,100 sound archives multiworks, talks Over 500 program notes Backup Backup, backup, backup…

19. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 19 IAML 2008, Naples (Italy)19 Present and future Retrospective digitization tapes, program notes, « old » cds cataloguing events >1,100 done (15 years); 16 years to go. Needed: seamless interconnection of databases Archiprod archive of performances Brahms composers bios Mustica production technical documentation of works Loris scores, books… Web site Future events Solutions Now: gateway www.musiquecontemporaine.fr Soon: events in gateway? automatic aggregation? Later: independent referentials events, people, works, places, rôles…

20. IEMA, Athens, 3/10/2008 The IRCAM Médiathèque 20 References The Multimedia Library web site http://mediatheque.ircam.fr The Librarys newswatch service http://veille.ircam.fr IRCAMs institutional web site http://www.ircam.fr IAMLs Newsletter http://www.iaml.info/publications/newsletter/ The ISMIR web site http://www.ismir.net