Together with five other music information retrieval (MIR) researchers, Reinier de Valk wrote a paper promoting stronger collaboration between the field of MIR and Trusted Digital Repositories holding digital music data. The paper touches on subjects such as research workflows, standardisation, and software sustainability—topics relevant both in the context of the European Commission-funded PARTHENOS project and in that of the national CLARIAH project. The paper has been accepted for the Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop, a satellite event of the highly prestigious annual International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (Suzhou and Shanghai, 23-28 October), and will be published in ACM’s International Conference Proceedings Series.
Another conference that is difficult to be accepted for is the annual International Semantic Web Conference. Albert Meroño-Peñuela, former PhD student of DANS, working for the CEDAR project; and others (including Reinier de Valk) had a paper accepted for this conference’s Resource Track. The paper describes “the MIDI Linked Data Cloud dataset, which represents multiple collections of digital music in the MIDI standard format as Linked Data using the novel midi2rdf algorithm”, and which opens all kind of new research possibilities. While CLARIAH currently does not focus on music, the researchers involved met in the context of building a DH research infrastructure for CLARIAH. This paper is a very nice example of a spin-off result from such large-scale collaborations.
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Reinier de Valk, Anja Volk, Andre Holzapfel, Aggelos Pikrakis, Nadine Kroher, and Joren Six. MIRchiving: Challenges and opportunities of connecting MIR research and digital music archives. In Proceedings of the 4th International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2017), to appear (2017). https://www.transforming-musicology.org/dlfm2017/#workshop-programme
Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra, Victor de Boer, Stefan Schlobach, Berit Janssen, Aldo Gangemi, Alo Allik, Reinier de Valk, Peter Bloem, Bas Stringer, and Kevin Page. “The MIDI Linked Data Cloud”. In Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017), to appear (2017). https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/accepted-papers/ (under the tab ‘Resource’)
