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