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The IRCAM Médiathèque :a physico-digital music archive and library

Michael Fingerhut

Ircam, Paris (France)

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IRCAM and its Multimedia Library IRCAM founded 1976 by Pierre Boulez

R&D acoustics, compositional tools, dsp, musicology, real-time processing… → publications and conferences

Education short- and long-term courses in computer music and composition → conferences, concerts

Artistic direction commissions, concerts, festival, tours Production performances → concerts

Multimedia Library founded 1995 Specialized library (contemporary) music, sciences, technology,

law, sociology, philosophy… → IAML (Newsletter editor, ontology workgroup)

Archive IRCAM’s musical and scientific heritage → Archiprod Engineering digital libraries, metadata, interoperability,

information retrieval, digital conservation and publication, in-house, national and int’l projects → newswatch, IRCAM’s web sites, Centre Pompidou Virtuel, French Gateway, The European Library, Europeana, ISMIR, Aga Khan Development Network…

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Digitization of sound archives for preservation and publication at Ircam: formats and description Many types

Artistic Concert, dance, film projection, opera… Concert cycles, festivals…

Scientific Lectures, panels, talks, workshops… Conferences, courses,

Mixed master classes…

Variable duration and occurrence Once/repeated On a single day, hour and place or not

Split Long

Fixed contents may vary Repeated talk, performance Work in progress

Structured Seasons Cycles Conferences

ArchiProd Describe

Preserve

Deliver

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Seasons

Season2007-2008

Season2006-2007

Events archive

Season2006-2007

Season1976-1977

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Groups of events

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2006-2007

Cycle1

Cycle2

Festival

Cycle2-1

Cycle2-2

Cycles may contain cyclesA conference within a festival

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Manifestations

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

Event: “a noteworthy happening”, usually of a limited duration with a well-defined program.A concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop

Event2

Cycle: a group of cycles or of events.A concert series, a festival, a scientific conference

An event can be part of several cyclesA concert from a series programmed during a conference

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Manifestation

Manifestation1

Manifestation2

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

Manifestation: an occurrence of an event, usually at a single date, time and place.A specific concert, talk…

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The traces

Manifestation1

Manifestation2

Event1

Season2007-2008

Events archive

Season2007-2006

Cycle1

Cycle2

brochures

brochures

program notes, contracts

Part1

Part2

Part3

recording

recording

… single work

… single talk

… single piece

… may differ

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Typology of events

Événement

Événement artistique

Rencontre

Projection

Exposition, installation

Autre événement artistique

Conférence – analyse d’une œuvre

Conférence scientifique et/ou technique

Autre conférence

Formation musicale

Formation scientifique et/ou technique

Autre formation

Autre rencontre

Autre événement

Conférence

Formation

Spectacle

Concert

Spectacle chorégraphique

Spectacle de théâtre musical

Autre spectacle

Spectacle théâtral

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Towards an ontology

Types Event, manifestation, work, person, corporate, rôle, place, document…

Relations (work, person, rôle), (event, place, date)…

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Metadata components: manifestation.General information Date, time, place People, corporate/rôles

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Metadata components: manifestation.Per-part information Title, subtitle, duration… Type Musical/non musical recording People, corporate/rôles Notes, transfer date…

Uncontrolled fields

Controls:- names- titles- rôles- dates, times- durations

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Metadata components: manifestation.Per-part information Title, subtitle, duration… Type Musical/non musical recording People, corporate/rôles Notes, transfer date…

Uncontrolled fields

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Formats

Preservation Audio: WAV 44,1 KHz, 16 bits or better Images: TIFF Metadata: METS

Online access Audio

Local: MPEG1 Layer 2, full recording. Partners: MP3 high rate, full recording. Internet: MP3, excerpt.

Text PDF

Metadata MODS

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Looking for contents: search

Basic, by table Index, full-text

in online view

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Looking for contents: browse event tree

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Current contents and its preservation Metadata

1,230 events more to go 7,600 works 3,000 people composers, performers… 100 locations

Data Over 1,100 sound archives multiworks, talks Over 500 program notes

Backup Backup, backup, backup…

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Present and future Retrospective

digitization tapes, program notes, « old » cds cataloguing events >1,100 done (15 years); 16 years to go.

Needed: seamless interconnection of databases Archiprod archive of performances Brahms composers’ bios Mustica production technical documentation of works Loris scores, books… Web site Future events

Solutions Now: gateway www.musiquecontemporaine.fr Soon: events in gateway? automatic aggregation? Later: independent referentials events, people, works,

places, rôles…

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References

The Multimedia Library web site http://mediatheque.ircam.fr

The Library’s newswatch servicehttp://veille.ircam.fr

IRCAM’s institutional web sitehttp://www.ircam.fr

IAML’s Newsletter http://www.iaml.info/publications/newsletter/

The ISMIR web sitehttp://www.ismir.net