MIRchiving: Challenges and opportunities of connecting MIR research and digital music archives

Reinier de Valk; A. Volk; Andre Holzapfel; Aggelos Pikrakis; Nadine Kroher; Joren Six

doi:10.1145/3144749

MIRchiving: Challenges and opportunities of connecting MIR research and digital music archives

Reinier de Valk, A. Volk, Andre Holzapfel, Aggelos Pikrakis, Nadine Kroher, Joren Six

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Abstract

This study is a call for action for the music information retrieval (MIR) community to pay more attention to collaboration with digital music archives. The study, which resulted from an interdisciplinary workshop and subsequent discussion, matches the demand for MIR technologies from various archives with what is already supplied by the MIR community. We conclude that the expressed demands can only be served sustainably through closer collaborations. Whereas MIR systems are described in scientific publications, usable implementations are often absent. If there is a runnable system, user documentation is often sparse—posing a huge hurdle for archivists
to employ it. This study sheds light on the current limitations and opportunities of MIR research in the context of music archives by means of examples, and highlights available tools. As a basic guideline for collaboration, we propose to interpret MIR research as part of a value chain. We identify the following benefits of collaboration between MIR researchers and music archives: new perspectives for content access in archives, more diverse evaluation data and methods, and a more application-oriented MIR research workflow.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	4th International workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5347-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3144749
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Applying MIR
documentatin
collaboration
digital music archives

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MIRchiving: Challenges and opportunities of connecting MIR research and digital music archives. / de Valk, Reinier; Volk, A.; Holzapfel, Andre et al.
4th International workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017.

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