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General Ontology for Linguistic General Ontology for Linguistic DescriptionDescription

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Music Description Music Description Ontologies?Ontologies?

•Much more complicated situation because of Much more complicated situation because of commercial music industry interestscommercial music industry interests

•Most ontologies designed for commercial Most ontologies designed for commercial music (albums, tracks, composers etc ) or music (albums, tracks, composers etc ) or Western music notation (diatonic scale etc)Western music notation (diatonic scale etc)

•Most recent ethnomusicological discourse Most recent ethnomusicological discourse concentrates on social context rather than concentrates on social context rather than description or analysis and suspicious of description or analysis and suspicious of universalist approachesuniversalist approaches

•Some current initiatives e.g. EU Some current initiatives e.g. EU MusicNetworkMusicNetwork

Issues for semantic Issues for semantic webweb

•Small-scale specialist archive with few staff and Small-scale specialist archive with few staff and precarious funding - not resourced for huge precarious funding - not resourced for huge amount of work for RDF markupamount of work for RDF markup

•Curator-intensive - cannot be readily automatedCurator-intensive - cannot be readily automated

• Need to motivate and involve researchers and Need to motivate and involve researchers and communities in description as well as high-level communities in description as well as high-level ICT advisorsICT advisors

•Present highest priority salvage of endangered Present highest priority salvage of endangered mediamedia

•Lack of appropriate ontologies especially for Lack of appropriate ontologies especially for musicmusic

But…But…•We have a good foundation - well-structured We have a good foundation - well-structured

data and metadata (for whole-item level) data and metadata (for whole-item level) conforming to international standardsconforming to international standards

•We are in conversation with international We are in conversation with international disciplinary communities through OLAC, disciplinary communities through OLAC, EMELD, DELAMANEMELD, DELAMAN

•Our collection is of high cultural heritage and Our collection is of high cultural heritage and scholarly value, of interest to international scholarly value, of interest to international communitycommunity

•We are motivated to learn more from other We are motivated to learn more from other large-scale distributed digital data archiveslarge-scale distributed digital data archives

PARADISEC gratefully PARADISEC gratefully acknowledges support acknowledges support

from:from:•Partner Universities (Sydney, Melbourne, Partner Universities (Sydney, Melbourne, ANU, UNE)ANU, UNE)

•Australian Research Council LIEF schemeAustralian Research Council LIEF scheme

•Australian Partnership for Sustainable Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (SORRT testbed)Repositories (SORRT testbed)

•Australian Partnership for Advanced Australian Partnership for Advanced ComputingComputing

•GrangenetGrangenet

•ANU Internet FuturesANU Internet Futures

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Contact usContact us• http://www.paradisec.org.auhttp://www.paradisec.org.au

•Linda.Barwick@paradisec.org.au Linda.Barwick@paradisec.org.au (Director)(Director)

•Nicholas.Thieberger@paradisec.orNicholas.Thieberger@paradisec.org.au (Project Manager)g.au (Project Manager)

Relevant URLsRelevant URLs

•PARADISEC website PARADISEC website http://paradisec.org.au/http://paradisec.org.au/

•PARADISEC repository login PARADISEC repository login http://store.http://store.apacapac..eduedu.au/.au/cgicgi-bin/-bin/pdscpdsc-v3.0.-v3.0.cgicgi/login/login

•PARADISEC streaming trial PARADISEC streaming trial http://paradisec.org.au/streamingtrial.htmlhttp://paradisec.org.au/streamingtrial.html

•Transcript page image trial Transcript page image trial http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/~gavan/lana/http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/~gavan/lana/hdms.hdms.htmhtm

•EMELD General Ontology for Linguistic DescriptionEMELD General Ontology for Linguistic Descriptionhttp://www.emeld.org/tools/ontology.cfmhttp://www.emeld.org/tools/ontology.cfm