The IRCAM M

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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
• RD 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 IRCAMs musical and scientific heritage
  ? Archiprod
• Engineering digital libraries, metadata,
  interoperability, information retrieval, digital
  conservation and publication, in-house, national
  and intl projects ? newswatch, IRCAMs 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

• ArchiProd
• Describe
• Preserve
• Deliver

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Seasons
Events archive
Season2007-2008
Season2006-2007
Season2006-2007
Season1976-1977
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Groups of events
Events archive
Season2007-2008
Cycle1
Cycle2
Cycles may contain cyclesA conference within a
festival
Cycle2-1
Cycle2-2
Festival
Season2006-2007
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Manifestations
Events archive
Season2007-2008
Cycle1
Event a noteworthy happening, usually of a
limited duration with a well-defined program.A
concert, a conference, a master-class, a workshop
Event1
An event can be part of several cyclesA concert
from a series programmed during a conference
Event2
Cycle a group of cycles or of events.A concert
series, a festival, a scientific conference
Cycle2
Season2007-2006
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Manifestation
Events archive
Season2007-2008
Cycle1
Event1
Manifestation1
Manifestation an occurrence of an event,
usually at a single date, time and place.A
specific concert, talk
Manifestation2
Cycle2
Season2007-2006
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The traces
Events archive
Season2007-2008
brochures
Cycle1
brochures
Event1
program notes, contracts
Manifestation1
recording
may differ
Manifestation2
recording
Part1
single work
Cycle2
single talk
Part2
single piece
Part3
Season2007-2006
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Typology of events
Concert
Spectacle chorégraphique
Spectacle théâtral
Spectacle
Spectacle de théâtre musical
Autre spectacle
Projection
Exposition, installation
Événement
Autre événement artistique
Conférence analyse dune œuvre
Conférence scientifique et/ou technique
Conférence
Autre conférence
Formation musicale
Formation scientifique et/ou technique
Formation
Autre formation
Autre rencontre
Autre événement
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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-textin 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 gt1,100 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

IAML 2008, Naples (Italy)
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References

• The Multimedia Library web site
  http//mediatheque.ircam.fr
• The Librarys newswatch servicehttp//veille.irca
  m.fr
• IRCAMs institutional web sitehttp//www.ircam.fr
  
• IAMLs Newsletter http//www.iaml.info/publication
  s/newsletter/
• The ISMIR web sitehttp//www.ismir.net