TY - GEN
T1 - Read/write digital libraries for musicology
AU - Weigl, David M.
AU - Goebl, Werner
AU - Hofmann, Alex
AU - Crawford, Tim
AU - Zubani, Federico
AU - Liem, Cynthia C.S.
AU - Porter, Alastair
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Web and other digital technologies have democratised music creation, reception, and analysis, putting music in the hands, ears, and minds of billions of users. Music digital libraries typically focus on an essential subset of this deluge - commercial and academic publications, and historical materials - but neglect to incorporate contributions by scholars, performers, and enthusiasts, such as annotations or performed interpretations of these artifacts, despite their potential utility for many types of users. In this paper we consider means by which digital libraries for musicology may incorporate such contributions into their collections, adhering to principles of FAIR data management and respecting contributor rights as outlined in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. We present an overview of centralised and decentralised approaches to this problem, and propose hybrid solutions in which contributions reside in a) user-controlled personal online datastores, b) decentralised file storage, and c) are published and aggregated into digital library collections. We outline the implementation of these ideas using Solid, a Web decentralisation project building on W3C standard technologies to facilitate publication and control over Linked Data. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by implementing prototypes supporting two types of contribution: Web Annotations describing or analysing musical elements in score encodings and music recordings; and, music performances and associated metadata supporting performance analyses across many renditions of a given piece. Finally, we situate these ideas within a wider conception of enriched, decentralised, and interconnected online music repositories.
AB - The Web and other digital technologies have democratised music creation, reception, and analysis, putting music in the hands, ears, and minds of billions of users. Music digital libraries typically focus on an essential subset of this deluge - commercial and academic publications, and historical materials - but neglect to incorporate contributions by scholars, performers, and enthusiasts, such as annotations or performed interpretations of these artifacts, despite their potential utility for many types of users. In this paper we consider means by which digital libraries for musicology may incorporate such contributions into their collections, adhering to principles of FAIR data management and respecting contributor rights as outlined in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. We present an overview of centralised and decentralised approaches to this problem, and propose hybrid solutions in which contributions reside in a) user-controlled personal online datastores, b) decentralised file storage, and c) are published and aggregated into digital library collections. We outline the implementation of these ideas using Solid, a Web decentralisation project building on W3C standard technologies to facilitate publication and control over Linked Data. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by implementing prototypes supporting two types of contribution: Web Annotations describing or analysing musical elements in score encodings and music recordings; and, music performances and associated metadata supporting performance analyses across many renditions of a given piece. Finally, we situate these ideas within a wider conception of enriched, decentralised, and interconnected online music repositories.
KW - Contribution
KW - Decentralisation
KW - IPFS
KW - Music Digital Libraries
KW - Solid
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095978537&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3424911.3425519
DO - 10.1145/3424911.3425519
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095978537
T3 - PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
SP - 48
EP - 52
BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, DLfM 2020 - A satellite event of ISMIR 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, DLfM 2020 - A satellite event of ISMIR 2020
Y2 - 16 October 2020
ER -