Transcript Indiana University Digital Music Library

Variations2:
The IU Digital Music Library Project
Jon Dunn
Assistant Director for Technology
IU Digital Library Program
IU Forum on Digital Libraries
April 16, 2002
Variations2
Four-year project
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Started October 1, 2000
Funding from NSF and NEH through Digital
Libraries Phase 2 (DLI2) program
Interdisciplinary team of investigators
Faculty: Music, SLIS, Law, Computer Science
Librarians and technologists: IUB Libraries, UITS
Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses
Variations2 Project Goals
Establish a digital library testbed system
for music
Develop user interface applications:
music library, music instruction
Conduct research: usability, metadata,
intellectual property
Variations2 Participants
PI: Michael McRobbie
Project Management: Gerry Bernbom, Jon Dunn
Steering Group: Blaise Cronin, Gwyn Richards,
Suzanne Thorin
Usability: Andrew Dillon, Mark Notess
Copyright: Kenneth Crews, Kristine Brancolini, Mary
Wallace Davidson
Music Instruction: Jay Fern, Roberta Lindsey
Music Theory: Eric Isaacson
Metadata: Mary Davidson, Harriette Hemmasi
System Design: Jon Dunn, technical staff
Networks/Satellite Sites: Doug Pearson
Satellite Sites
United States
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Northwestern University
United Kingdom
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Kings College - London
Loughborough University
University of Oxford
Japan
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Waseda University
Variations2 vs. Variations
New name
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Digital Music Library (DML)  Variations2
Builds upon previous work: Variations
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Existing DL of sound recordings (~7000 titles) and
scores (~200 titles)
Used in IU Music Library, primarily for course
reserves
Variations2 = R&D system
Variations = production service
The Variations2 System
Integrated access to music in all formats
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Digital audio recordings
Score images
Score notation
Video
Delivery to wide range of users
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Faculty: teaching, course design, research
Students: coursework, independent study
Music librarians, other library users
Extensible
Multiple user interfaces
Staged development
Variations2 System Architecture
Metadata
Search
Audio
Score
images
Video
Image
retrieval
Notation
retrieval
Score
notation
Sound
playback
Repositories
Access
Components
and others...
Search
tool
Sound
player
Score
viewer
Digital
time liner
Cataloging
tools
User Interface
Components
and others...
Applications
General purpose
library application
Multimedia Music
Theory Teaching
application
Oncourse
Cataloging/
adminsistration
application
General user
Theory student or
instructor
Non-major
music student
or instructor
Cataloger or
digitization technician
Variations2 Version 1.0
System Architecture
Metadata
Search
Audio
Score
images
Video
Image
retrieval
Notation
retrieval
Score
notation
Sound
playback
Repositories
Access
Components
and others...
Search
tool
Sound
player
Score
viewer
Digital
time liner
Cataloging
tools
User Interface
Components
and others...
Applications
General purpose
library application
Multimedia Music
Theory Teaching
application
Oncourse
Cataloging/
adminsistration
application
General user
Theory student or
instructor
Non-major
music student
or instructor
Cataloger or
digitization technician
Variations2 Version 1.0
To be completed April 2002
Features
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Infrastructure
 Data/metadata repositories, authentication, logging
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Search and retrieval interface
 Based on new data model
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Presentation/navigation of audio and scanned
scores
Bookmarking
Data Model and Metadata
Represent relationships
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Works (musical compositions)
Instantiations (recording/score of individual work)
Containers (entire recordings, scores)
Other complexities: relationships between works
Music thesaurus
Enable improved search and navigation
Structural metadata to support
synchronization
WORK
Is manifested
in
INSTANTIATION
CONTRIBUTOR
Is
enclose
d
in
Is
create
d
by
CONTAINER
Is represented
by
MEDIA OBJECT
Variations2 Version 1.0
Technical Environment
Java client application / RMI server
Windows and Mac OS X client platforms
Unix server
QuickTime for Java, Darwin Streaming Server
IBM DB2, DB2 Text Information Extender
AT&T Labs / LizardTech DjVu image
compression
Future Versions
Roughly a 6-month development cycle
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Version 2: Fall 2002
Version 3: Spring 2003
etc.
Features to be added include:
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Support for computerized music notation
Support for additional image and audio formats
Support for new and emerging streaming
technologies
Support for video
Future Versions
Features to be added (continued):
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Support for supplemental recording materials
(e.g., liner notes, booklets)
Improved browsing interface
User interface support for synchronized navigation
and playback
Instructional authoring, classroom presentation,
and instructional delivery interfaces
Structure diagramming/visualization tools (e.g.,
Digital Timeliner)
This material is based upon work supported
by the National Science Foundation under
Grant No. 9909068.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material
are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the National
Science Foundation.
For more information…
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