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A Collaborative Music Information Retrieval /

Music Digital Library Research Model: A Briefing

J. Stephen Downie, Ph.D.

Graduate School of Library & Information ScienceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

jdownie@uiuc.edu

26 May 2004

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Two Paths to Making MIR/MDL Implementations a Reality

• HUMIRS: Human Use of Music Information Retrieval Systems

• IMIRSEL: International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory

• Co-operative projects involving GSLIS, Music Library and NCSA at UIUC

• Funding secured from National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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IMIRSEL: First Principles

1. Security for the music materials

2. Accessibility for international, domestic and internal researchers

3. Sufficient computing and storage infrastructure for the computationally- and data-intensive MIR/MDL techniques examined

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IMIRSEL: Secure-Yet Accessible- Evaluation Environment

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IMIRSEL Network Configuration

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Workflow Modeling (D2K)

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Some MIR Resources

• MIRBIB– A searchable/browsable collection of MIR papers

– http://music-ir.org

• MIR Systems– Access to a variety of MIR projects/demos

– http://www.mirsystems.info/

• ISMIR– Access to ISMIR conference info and links

– http://www.ismir.net

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Some MIR Demos

• Tuneserver/Melodyhound– A QBH system from 1997. Contour-based (Parson’s code)

– http://melodyhound.com

• MELDEX– A substantial collection of music with a variety of options

– http://www.nzdl.org/fast-cgi-bin/music/musiclibrary

• Themefinder– Based on Humdrum’s thema command. Musical themes or

incipits. Collections: Classical, Folk Songs, Motets.

– http://themefinder.org/