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Findings and outcomes of the musicSpace project

Findings and outcomes of the musicSpace project
Findings and outcomes of the musicSpace project
The effective use of the ever-increasing number of online music and musicology resources is held back by the segregation of data into a plethora of discrete and disparate databases, and the use of legacy, ad hoc or otherwise unsuitable metadata specifications, such that many real-world research questions are rendered effectively intractable. To counter this barrier to research, the "musicSpace" project (based at the University of Southampton, UK) utilized Semantic Web and Web2.0 technologies such as RDF and AJAX to experimentally integrate access to many of musicology's leading data providers, by: (1) designing back-end services to integrate (and where necessary surface) available (meta)data for exploratory search from musicology's key online data providers; and (2) providing a front-end interface, based on the "mSpace" faceted browser, to support rich exploratory search interaction. The project concluded with a longitudinal evaluation of the efficacy of the musicSpace interface in supporting researchers, and in this paper we present our finding. Our work offers an effective generalizable framework for data integration and exploration that is well suited to arts and humanities data, and we conclude by outlining how we are taking various aspects of this work forward.
Bretherton, David
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Smith, Daniel Alexander
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Lambert, Joe
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Bretherton, David
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Smith, Daniel Alexander
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Lambert, Joe
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Bretherton, David, Smith, Daniel Alexander, schraefel, m.c. and Lambert, Joe (2010) Findings and outcomes of the musicSpace project. Supporting the Digital Humanities, Vienna, Austria. 19 - 20 Oct 2010.

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Abstract

The effective use of the ever-increasing number of online music and musicology resources is held back by the segregation of data into a plethora of discrete and disparate databases, and the use of legacy, ad hoc or otherwise unsuitable metadata specifications, such that many real-world research questions are rendered effectively intractable. To counter this barrier to research, the "musicSpace" project (based at the University of Southampton, UK) utilized Semantic Web and Web2.0 technologies such as RDF and AJAX to experimentally integrate access to many of musicology's leading data providers, by: (1) designing back-end services to integrate (and where necessary surface) available (meta)data for exploratory search from musicology's key online data providers; and (2) providing a front-end interface, based on the "mSpace" faceted browser, to support rich exploratory search interaction. The project concluded with a longitudinal evaluation of the efficacy of the musicSpace interface in supporting researchers, and in this paper we present our finding. Our work offers an effective generalizable framework for data integration and exploration that is well suited to arts and humanities data, and we conclude by outlining how we are taking various aspects of this work forward.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 October 2010
e-pub ahead of print date: October 2010
Additional Information: Event Dates: 19-20 October, 2010
Venue - Dates: Supporting the Digital Humanities, Vienna, Austria, 2010-10-19 - 2010-10-20

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Local EPrints ID: 182643
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/182643
PURE UUID: d5c8d881-112e-4c9b-a4e2-d132b1333622
ORCID for m.c. schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2011 10:44
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: Daniel Alexander Smith
Author: m.c. schraefel ORCID iD
Author: Joe Lambert

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