A gateway to contemporary music resources in France Michael Fingerhut Ircam, Paris (France)

A gateway to contemporary music resources in France

Michael Fingerhut

Ircam, Paris (France)

IAML 2008, Naples (Italy)

www.musiquecontemporaine.fr 2

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 Single-stop access Reduce noise and silence “partition berlin”, “murs paris” Provide online contents respecting rights Don’t affect existing systems



Framework Past

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

2006 Yearly call of Culture Ministry for digitization 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 New national proposal?



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



Source record



Indexing the Grove as if it were a repository.



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



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



Online documentation of the model usedby the gateway.



Project status Contents

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

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

Rights Future

New partners BnF, Ina Semantic navigation Go European(a)