Interoperability

Michael Fingerhut

Ircam, Paris (France)

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A few projects - Music Navigator 2000-? Ircam and partners

Gateway to ethnomusicological recordings 2004-2005 Gateway to French Resources in Contemporary Music 2007,

2008 → 2008+ 6th Framework Program: information society

ethnoArc Linked European Archives for Ethnomus. Research 2006-2008

Past eContentPlus Dismarc Discovering Music Archives 2006-2008 → 2008+ EDL / Europeana (not The European Library) → 2008+

eContentPlus 2008 call Content

- MuseLib - D.LibEReMus Digital Library of Electronic Resources in Music

Services - Marsel Music Access, Retrieval and navigation Services for the

European digital Library

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Issues

Diversity of organizations and structures Diversity of software and systems Diversity of resources Diversity of descriptions Diversity of languages Rights

The Gateway to Contemporary Music Resources in France

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How to find (and use) resources concerning contemporary music Resources

Documents books, scores, ephemera, periodicals, articles, pictures, recordings, films…

Information events, people, organizations… Spread

Physical in libraries, archives, museums… Online intranets/internet, web pages, databases…

Goals Uniform description and single-stop access seach, find, use Reduce noise and silence “partition berlin”, “murs paris” Provide online contents respecting rights Don’t affect existing systems

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Diversity of providers

Archive Conservatory Library MIC Producer of events Research center Studio

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Diversity of resources

Database CDMC Cité CNSMDP EIC Ircam MMM

(Online) sound archives

Online catalogue (books, scores, periodicals, manuscripts…)

Online calendar of events

Address book (people, corporate)

Online biographies, work lists and documentation

Online production notes, concert programs and notes

Online documentary files

Instruments

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Framework Past

1995 Dreams (Z39.50). 2004 Gateway to ethnomusicological contents. 2005 IAML talk.

2006 Yearly call of Culture Ministry for digitization and publication of

cultural contents Proposal by a consortium Cdmc (leader), Cité de la musique,

Conservatoire de Paris, Eic, Ircam (design), Médiathèque Mahler 2007

Project runs and ends 100,000 records New proposal + Acanthes, Conservatoire de Lyon, 6 centres of

contemporary creation 2008

Project runs eContentPlus proposal Marsel New national proposal?

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Two distinct but interrelated projects Digitization each partner individually

Formats of data Description Publication protocols Preservations procedures

Sharing the gateway Formats of metadata Exchange protocols

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Organization principle

Gateway 1

Librarycatalogue

Agenda ofevents

Soundarchives

Biographies,articles

Concertnotes

Partner C

Library catalogue

Agenda ofevents

Soundarchives

Biographies,articles

Concertnotes

Partner A

Librarycatalogue

Agenda ofevents

Soundarchives

Biographies,articles

Concertnotes

Partner B

Gateway 2

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Principles: well-defined and relevant sources Gateway to selected partners

Periodically retrieves only relevant metadata harvester simple protocol OAI (Open Archive Initiative) common metadata model and language MODS

Provides search & browse features local record, remote contents Useful shortcuts mini thesaurus

Partners make available The relevant metadata sets

Add a connector to each database repository Provide metadata in adequate form

Contents as available and allowed Referenced in the metadata Not copied to the gateway Differentiated access on-site / partners / everyone else

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Metadata model: simplified MODS Derived from MARC

Humanly readable XML Easy conversion from any schemes mostly optional “fields” Keeps associations people/rôles, subject/author/title…

Hierarchical ad inf. Express structure collections/items, cds/tracks, meta-

events/events… In the record/from record to record

Extensible Instrumentation Rights of access to contents intranet/extranet/internet Pseudo-FRBR

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Resource categorization and attributes

<typeOfResource> (encoding)

cartographiccorporateeventmixed materialmoving imagenotated musicperson softwaresound recordingsound recording-musicalsound recording-non musicalstill imagetext3D object

<form>(media)

cassette…concertconférencedisque compact…document numériquedocument imprimédocument manuscritémissionexpositiongroupe d’événementsmicroficheorganismepersonne…

<genre>(nature of resource)

adresseatelierbibliothèque…biographiecataloguecentre de recherchecolloquedictionnaireéditeurfestivalformationmaster classmonographienote de programmenotice d’œuvresalle de spectacle…

<role>(rôle, instrumentation)

auteurcompositeurconférencierintervenantmusicien interprète

instrument(iste)sensembles

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Home page: express search, agenda. Access to detailed search and other sections of the site.

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After an express search. Refine results (left), access to records (center), access to contents (right)

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Direct access to audio contents with embeded player. To see record, click on blue text.

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Detailed record. Access to original record, to audio contents. Identification of holder. Structure.

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Refinement: by type of recording (conference vs. musical work).

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Refinement: by provider (and location of physical contents or full-length audio contents).

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Refinement: by person name (composer, performers, etc.)

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Access to original record, to parent record, to MODS source.

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Source record

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Indexing the Grove as if it were a repository.

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Local record mentions access restrictions to the Grove record (subscription required).

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Example of a detailed search (of events). Other detailed search forms available.

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Online documentation of the model usedby the gateway.

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Project status Contents

Ca. 100,000 records Google indexes 60% Ca. 20% online contents audio video print manuscripts

Current developments Repository for Europeana done Multilingualism done Fuller documentation www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/doc Ongoing digitization METS for preservation Genericization for gateways to other kinds of resources

Future New partners BnF, Ina Semantic navigation

Europeana

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Europeana

Currently Prototype 2,000,000 objects, launches November Design of the real thing rich semantics and

services Issues

Flat model no associations, hierarchy Too few document types text, audio, video, image Protocols and formats OAI, ORE, SKOS, FTP…

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Links

Gateway to contemporary music resources in France http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr

The European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

Europeana http://www.europeana.eu Dismarc http://www.dismarc.org (no IE)