PRESENTATIONS

Presenter: Gyorgy Fazekas

Topic: Reusable Metadata and Software Components for Automatic Audio Analysis

Authors: Gyorgy Fazekas, Chris Cannam and Mark Sandler

Abstract: Content-based metadata is becoming increasingly important for managing audio collections in digital library applications. While Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research provides means for extracting metadata from audio recordings, no common practice emerges for representing analysis results or exchanging algorithms. This paper argues for the need of modularity through interoperable components and data publishing methods in MIR applications. We demonstrate the use of a common API for audio analysis, enhanced with easily extended Semantic Web ontologies for describing results and configuration. Built on the extensible ontological framework provided by the Music Ontology, our system allows for the representation of diverse information such as musical facts, features or analysis parameters in a uniform,reusable and machine interpretable format. Our demonstration will be using SAWA, a Web-application available for researchers interested in these technologies.

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Presenter: Ichiro Fujinaga

Topic: Networked Environment for Music Analysis: An Overview

Authors: Ichiro Fujinaga and J. Stephen Downie

Abstract: Networked Environment for Music Analysis (NEMA) framework project is a multinational, multidisciplinary cyber infrastructure project for music information processing that builds upon and extends the music information retrieval (MIR) research being conducted by the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). NEMA brings together the collective projects and the associated tools of six world leaders in the domains of MIR, computational musicology (CM), and e-humanities research. The NEMA team aims to create an open and extensible web service-based resource framework that facilitates the integration of music data and analytic/evaluative tools that can be used by the global MIR and CM research and education communities on a basis independent of time or location.

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Presenter: Amit Kumar

Topic: MONK Project:Architecture Overview

Author: Amit Kumar

Abstract: This presentation will describe the software architecture of the Metadata Offer New Knowledge(MONK) project. MONK project provides access to about 568 public works including American literature and works by William Shakespeare via a public site. The collections span from the early Modern English period to the start of the twentieth century. A larger collection, including about a thousand works of British literature from 16th through the 19th century provided by The Text Creation Partnership(Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online), will be available in July of 2009 to users at Committee on Institutional Cooperation(CIC) institutes.

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Presenter: Amit Kumar

Topic: SEASR & Meandre for Second Generation Digital Libraries

Authors: Xavier Llora, Bernie Acs, Loretta Auvil, Boris Capitanu, David Tcheng, Amit Kumar, Michael Haberman and Michael Welge

Abstract: The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Researchh (SEASR) is a software engineering project that is leveraging the latest informatics research to innovate essential technology for humanities scholars. SEASR employs underlying infrastructure that provides a highly scalable, distributed, intensive data-flow execution engine called "Meandre". This infrastructure enables rapid development of data-flows using a component based architecture that encourages reuse, sharing, and foster collaborations among scholars and their development teams to solve complex analytical problems using the growing pool of environment for analysis through workshops to promote its data resources available in today’s world where the internet and digital sensors are providing tidal waves of information for all the domains of study and scholarship.

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Presenter: Ray Larson

Topic: Integrating Tools for Synthesis into Digital Libraries

Authors: Ryan Shaw, Michael Buckland and Ray Larson

Abstract: Second-generation digital libraries aim to go beyond providing access to resources, toward integrating tools and services for exploring the content of resources. Much of the work in this area focuses on tools for analyzing data sets such as numeric observations or text corpora. Our work, in contrast, focuses on tools for synthesizing an understanding of mentioned but unexplained names or terms. We argue that these self-service reference tools, by making connections across separate collections, complement analytic tools that uncover patterns within a collection. Finally, we demonstrate working prototypes that illustrate the basic principles of self-service reference.

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Presenters: Clare Llewellyn and Ronald Snyder

Topic: Introducing JSTOR's Data for Research

Authors: Michael Krot, Ronald Snyder and Clare Llewellyn

Abstract: JSTOR, a not-for-profit digital library,has created a tool called Data for Research that allows users to interact with the JSTOR corpus in new ways.Researchers can now explore the content visually as well as download complex datasets for offline analysis.

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Presenters: Cory McKay and John Ashley Burgoyne

Topic: jMIR and ACE XML: Tools for Performing and Sharing Research in Automatic Music Classification

Authors: Cory McKay, John Ashley Burgoyne and Ichiro Fujinaga

Abstract: This presentation will begin by introducing the research fields of music information retrieval and automatic music classification. The core of the presentation will then be divided into two parts, the first dealing with the jMIR software suite, and the second dealing with the ACE XML file formats. jMIR is a set of free and open source software tools for automatically classifying music in a variety of ways. ACE XML is set of XML-based standardized file formats for storing and sharing the essential information that is related to automatic music classification. Although ACE XML is supported by each of the jMIR components, it is intended for use as a general standard in automatic music classification, and is not limited specifically to jMIR.

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Presenter: David Tcheng

Topic: NESTER - Web Based Waveform Analysis with Meandre

Authors: David Tcheng, Sam Johnson, David Enstrom and Stephen Downie

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Presenter: Kevin Trainor

Topic: A Proposal for Topic Maps Support in Zotero

Author: Kevin Trainor

Abstract: While Topic Maps technology has had a following the digital library (DL) world, most DL applications have been implemented using relational databases and RDF/OWL. This presentation identifies the types of DL applications in which Topic Maps has had a significant impact thus far. It continues by introducing the Topic Maps model and identifying its strengths compared to both relational databases and RDF/OWL. Finally, a proposal is made for implementing more advanced semantic features in Zotero using Topic Maps.

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Presenter: Karen M. Wickett

Topic: A testbed approach for metadata inference rule development

Authors: Karen M. Wickett , Richard J. Urban , Wu Zheng and Allen H. Renear

Abstract: Inference rules that exploit logical relationships in metadata can substantially improve the functionality of digital library tools for searching, browsing, and analysis, particularly in a semantic web environment.However schema documentation provides inadequate guidance for determining and deploying inference rules. We present a strategy for rule development which foregrounds the use of a testbed of selected records for empirically testing conjectured relationships. This approach will improve the likelihood that the rules ultimately selected will match the actual implicit semantics of the metadata in use in a particular metadata repository.

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