Lately there has been a significant boost of interest in
music digital libraries, which constitute an attractive area of research
and development due to their inherent interesting issues and
challenging technical problems, solutions to which will be highly
appreciated by enthusiastic end-users. We present here a DL that we
have developed to support users in their quest for classical music
pieces within a particular collection of 18,000+ audio recordings.
To cope with the early DL model limitations, we have used a refined
socio-semantic and contextual model that allows rich bibliographic
content description, along with semantic annotations, reviewing,
rating, knowledge sharing etc. The multi-layered service model
allows incorporation of local and distributed information,
construction of rich hypermedia documents, expressing the complex
relationships between various objects and multi-dimensional spaces,
agents, actors, services, communities, scenarios etc., and facilitates
collaborative activities to offer to individual users the needed
collections and services.
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[1] D. Bainbridge, C. G. Nevill-Manning, I. H. Witten, L. A. Smith, and R.
J. McNab R.J., "Towards a digital library of popular music", in
Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries,
Tuscon, AZ, USA, 2004, pp. 161-169, New York: ACM.
[2] D. Bainbridge, M. Dewsnip, and I. H. Witten, "Searching digital music
libraries", Information Processing and Management, vol. 41, no. 1,
pp. 41-56, January 2005.
[3] I. H. Witten, D. Bainbridge, and D. M. Nichols, How to Build a Digital
Library, 2nd Edition, Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
2009, pp. 7
[4] M. Vladoiu and Z. Constantinescu, Open Digital Library on Digital
Libraries, Proceedings of 10th IEEE RoEduNet International Conference
Networking in Education and Research, 2011, Iasi, Romania, pp.
[5] M. Lesk, Understanding Digital Libraries, San Francisco, CA: Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers, 2005
[6] D. Kresh, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, American Library
Association Editions, 2007
[7] C. Lagoze, D. B. Krafft, S. Payette, S. Jesuroga,"What Is a Digital
Library Anymore, Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL",
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 11, November, 2005, available at
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html, accessed
April 2011
[8] R. A. Eamshaw and J. A. Vince, Digital Convergence - Libraries of the
Future, Springer, 2010
[9] K. Johnson and E. Magusin, Exploring the Digital Library: A Guide for
Online Teachind and Learning, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
[10] M. Vladoiu, Z. Constantinescu, "u-Learning within a Context-Aware
Multiagent Environment", International Iournal of Computer Networks
& Communications (IJCNC), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-15, January 2011.
[11] M. Vladoiu, Z. Constantinescu, "Learning with a Context-Aware
Multiagent System", Proc. 9th IEEE Int. Conference Romanian
Educational Network - RoEduNet, Sibiu, Romania, 2010, pp. 368-373
[12] P. Parrish, "The Trouble with Learning Objects," Educational
Technology Research and Development, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 49-67, 2004.
[13] M. Recker, A. Walker, and D. A. Wiley, "Collaboratively filtering
learning objects," in Designing Instruction with Learning Objects, D. A.
Wiley, Ed., 2000.
[14] R. Daniel Jr. and C. Lagoze, "Extending the Warwick Framework: From
Metadata Containers to Active Digital Objects," D-Lib Magazine
November, 1997.
[15] M. Recker, J. Dorward, and L. M. Nelson, "Discovery and Use of Online
Learning Resources: Case Study Findings," Educational Technology and
Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 93-104, 2004.
[16] D. Greenstein, Lessons in Deep Resource Sharing from the University of
California Libraries, Council on Libraries and Information Resources,
available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub119/greenstein.html,
accessed April 2011.
[17] Cognitive Design Solutions - Instructional Design - Learning Objects
http://www.cognitivedesignsolutions.com/Instruction/LearningObjects.ht
m, accessed April 2011.
[18] M. David Merrill, "Knowledge Objects", CBT Solutions, pp. 6-11,
March/April, 1998.
[19] Lagoze C., Lost Identity: The Assimilation of Digital Libraries into the
Web, PhD Thesis, available online at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/dissertation/dissertation.html, accessed
March 2011
[20] CDDB - Compact Disc Database, available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB, accessed June 2011
[21] EAC - Exat Audio Copy available at http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/,
accessed June 2011
[22] freedb available at http://www.freedb.org/, accessed June 2011
[23] New Zealand Digital Library available at http://www.nzdl.org/cgibin/
library.cgi, accessed June 2011
[24] D. Bainbridge, S. J. Cunningham, and J. S. Downie, Visual collaging of
music in a digital library, in Proceedings of 5th International Conference
on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2004, 2004, Barcelona, Spain,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, pp. 397-402.
[25] D. Bainbridge, M. Dewsnip, and I. H. Witten, Searching digital music
libraries, Information Processing & Management, 41(1), pp. 41-56.
[26] Variations - The Indiana University Digital Music Library available at
http://www.dml.indiana.edu/, accessed June 2011
[27] M. McRobbie, DLI-2: Creating the Digital Music Library, available at
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/.../Variations2%20Final%20Report.p
df, accessed June 2011
[28] I. Connell, A. Blandford, and T.R.G. Green, Usability of a Music Digital
Library: an OSM Case Study, available at
http://www.uclic.ucl.ac.uk/annb/docs/ISMIR-OSM.pdf, accessed June
2011
[29] C. Fremerey, D. Damm, M. Muller, F. Kurth, M. Clausen, "Handling
scanned sheet music and audio recordings in digital music libraries", in
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Acoustics
(NAG/DAGA), Rotterdam, Netherlands, pp. 350-351, 2009
[30] F. Cruz et al., A Brazilian popular music digital library oriented to
musical harmony e-learning, in Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Music
Information Retrieval, 5., 2004, Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
pp. 429-432.
[31] S. J. Simon, Digital libraries as an access-point to music culture, 3rd
International Music Council World Forum on Music (UNESCO IMC),
Tunis, Tunisia, available at www.imccim.
org/programmes/WFM3/papers/session3/Simon.pdf, accessed June
2011
[32] A. Einstein, What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George
Sylvester Viereck, The Saturday Evening Post, October 16, 1929.
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music digital libraries, which constitute an attractive area of research
and development due to their inherent interesting issues and
challenging technical problems, solutions to which will be highly
appreciated by enthusiastic end-users. We present here a DL that we
have developed to support users in their quest for classical music
pieces within a particular collection of 18,000+ audio recordings.
To cope with the early DL model limitations, we have used a refined
socio-semantic and contextual model that allows rich bibliographic
content description, along with semantic annotations, reviewing,
rating, knowledge sharing etc. The multi-layered service model
allows incorporation of local and distributed information,
construction of rich hypermedia documents, expressing the complex
relationships between various objects and multi-dimensional spaces,
agents, actors, services, communities, scenarios etc., and facilitates
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