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Towards Richer Online Music Public-domain Archives

David M. Weigl and Werner Goebl

Dept. of Music Acoustics—Wiener Klangstil

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, AT

Using graph technologies to interconnect and enrich public-domain music resources

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TROMPA (Towards Richer Online Music Public-domain Archives)

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TROMPA is a collaboration of partners across different disciplines:

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  • Musicology
  • Music Institutions
  • Technological partners
  • Music users
  • Content owners

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UNDERSTANDING EUROPE – PROMOTING THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC AND CULTURAL SPACE

2018–2021

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Interlinking and enriching repositories

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library

Choral Public Domain Library

Early Music Online

Electronic Corpus of Lute Music

CDR Muziekweb catalogue

AcousticBrainz

MusicBrainz

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

Vienna 4x22 Piano Corpus

Europeana Music

KernScores

MuseScore

YouTube

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Linked Open Data Cloud @ lod-cloud.net (CC-BY-4.0)

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TROMPA: one web of data, five use cases

Choir image: Steven Imiori (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Orchestra image: Jiuguang Wang (CC-BY-SA-2.0)

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Web-addressable score encodings

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MELD app: Lohengrin TimeMachine

Unlocking Musicology project (University of Oxford)

https://um.web.ox.ac.uk/lohengrin

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Choir singers pilot demo at

https://trompa.netlify.com/

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Instrumental players pilot demo at

https://trompa.mdw.ac.at

CLARA

Companion for Long-term Analyses of Rehearsal Attempts

in honour of

Clara Schumann 200 (13th. September 2019)

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Handling user contributions

Challenges:

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  • Data privacy and ownership

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  • Access control

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  • Publication status

Contribution types:

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  • Annotations

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  • Rehearsal renditions

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  • Score encodings

https://solidproject.org

publish under an

open license

TROMPA CE

POD

POD

POD

TROMPA application web-client

publicly-licensed data

private user

data

POD

privately share

publicly

share

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Conclusions

  • One web of data serving many use cases
  • Interlinking, (re-)contextualisation, (re-)interpretation
  • Contributions provide mutual benefits and enrichment
  • Crowd creates and enriches own repertoire

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Open research questions

  • Scholarly annotation vocabularies for different contexts, repertoires?
  • Community building, incentivisation, overcoming cold start problem
  • Big data analyses on large quantities of fine-grained rehearsal data?

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Thank you!

https://trompamusic.eu @trompamusic

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Find these slides at: https://tinyurl.com/graphs-trompa

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MELD: David M. Weigl, David Lewis, Kevin R. Page�Oxford e-Research Centre, Univ. of Oxford, UK

Performance alignment: Martin Bonev, Carlos Cancino-Chacòn, OFAI & mdw, AT

Offline Score-Performance Matcher, Eita Nakamura, Kyoto Uni, JP

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Thanks to all our colleagues in the TROMPA consortium!

Also check out performance comparison tool by Peachnote: tuttitempi.com

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