29.5.2018 | Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
DH 2018 Budapest
IncipitSearch
A common interface for searching in music repositories
Slides: https://annaneo.github.io/DH-2018-Budapest-IncipitSearch
Anna Neovesky & Frederic von Vlahovits |
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digicademy |
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Digital Academy
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
What is an incipit?
Source: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) in IMSLP
- beginning or characteristical sequence of a music piece
- multiple pieces with same title: incipit as identifier
- used to catalogue music
- IAML: first three measures or first ten notes
- represents and identifies a music piece
- first analytical hints on motifs
Overview
- Approach and webtool to search music using music incipits: IncipitSearch
- Music Information Retrieval
- Idea of IncipitSearch
- Music Annotation and Open Content in Musicology
- Functionality and underlying technology
- Possibilities of usage of IncipitSearch
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Searching Music
Searching Music
Music Information Retrieval Systems
- search in audio or in symbolic music notation
How to search?
- query by humming
- acoustic fingerprinting
- searching in notated music (string based)
Why searching music?
- identifying music
- recommender systems
- grouping (style, mood, genre)
- plagiarism detection
especially: music identification, adaption of motifs
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The idea behind IncipitSearch
What is the idea of IncipitSearch?
Search in notated music
- digital catalogue of Gluck's work
- incipits to illustrate adaptions of motifs
- further searching possibilities
What is the idea of IncipitSearch?
- 15 music projects at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
- fundamental research, especially editions
- possible application of incipit search functionality
- generic implementation
- further open music repositories
- service that offers search functionality and aggregates available repositories
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Considerations: Repositories and Standards
Preliminary considerations
- What kind of music repositories can be integrated?
- Which content is openly available?
- What kind of annotations are used?
- Which overall standard to use for IncipitSearch?
Music Annotation
Standards and formats for music (especially for western music)
General standards
- marcXML
- RDF
For incipits
- Plaine & Easie Code
Verovio Plaine & Easie Editor Verovio Toolkit developed by Swiss RISM Office
Repositories
Different types of repositories, different notation
Digital repositories:
- Library catalogues
- Specific collections
- Digital editions
Scans or analogue:
- digitized music pieces
- analogue only catalogues
provide possibility to search over multiple catalogues
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The webapplication IncipitSearch
Software Architecture
IncipitSearch metadata format
- preliminary thoughts and goals
- easy possibility to notate incipits for new content
- addition to existing Markup
- applicable on different types of repositories
- RDF!
- interoperable through different serializations
- can be added to existing markup with JSON-LD, HTML Microdata, RDFa
- standalone notation (Turtle)
schema.org
Vocabulary for semantic information
- joined initiative of search engine providers
- simple vocabulary to implement semantic information on web pages for further processing by search engines (rich snippets)
- MusicComposition
- own extension of vocabulary "MusicIncipit"
IncipitSearch metadata format
Schema: Torsten Schrade
IncipitSearch metadata format
Example Breitkopf Katalog
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Outlook and Conclusion
Future directions
Optimisation, new features, news repositories
- Optimisation of existing features, implementation of new functionality (with community)
- search interface
- search possibilities (rythm)
- result presentation and faceting
- Growing platform
- integration of further formats and repositories
- webfrom to integrate own catalogues
- Authority data and LOD
- Integration of authority data
- Provide all aggregated data for further reuse
- stimulus for digitization of work catalogues and openness for music repositories
Prespectives for (Digital) Musicology?
- connection between standalone repositories
- symplifying creation of additional metadata
- promotion of LOD technologies in digital musicology
- adding fields of discourse to digital musicology