Brainstorming on Web technologies and the pipeorgan DB

Achille Peternier

Towards a FP7

• A new international platform for all– Lesson learned from previous (national)

experiences– Consensus– Using modern technologies

• Definition of standards– Categorizing instruments– Storing the information

Towards a FP7

Historical aspects IT support

- How to access/store/modify data- How to present the content

Standards

• Create a group of experts to define a universal categorization standard for pipeorgans– The world is full of standards: ISO, JPEG, PDF, etc.

• What information to collect and how?

• How robust it is?– Test the standard against worst-cases

Standards

• A standard allows us to:– Easily share data and concepts

• Organ builders and software designers working under the same roof

– Automatic data processing:• Define a file format• Build compatible DBs• Build adapters to export/import to/from the standard

– Future generations will complain and improve the standard (iteration) • Make it extendable

Towards a FP7

Timeline

Timeline

Timeline

• A location• A series of events– Deltas over the previous state

• F(location, date) = sum(all events)– Add, sub, migrate, destroy, …

Timeline

St. Martin Mendrisio, CH

1523 1630 1712 1890 Today

Timeline

St. Martin Mendrisio, CH

1523 1630

1712 1890 Today

1771 1911

Moved to:City Museum

Zug, CH

Timeline

City MuseumZug, CH

1900 1911 1990

From:St. Martin

Mendrisio, CH

Modified:Mean-tone

temperament

Idea

• …a different approach?

How to?

How to?

• Two static elements: – Location

• Churches, organ builders’ workshops, concert halls, private houses, etc.

– Time• A specific moment

• Two dynamic elements:– Bricks

• Can be anything: a stop, a kind of keyboard, a kind of temperament, an organ body, a location within the church, etc.

• Are stored in a tree

– Actions• Are the glue among atoms, locations and time.• Can be add, remove, relocate, modify, destroy, etc.

How to?

St. MartinMendrisio, CH

Location: Action: Atom:

OrganAdd (1st Oct. 1771)

How to?

Organ

Organ

Organ

How to?Organ

Organ body

Hauptwerk Mechanic

Principal

Octave

Flute

WoodMetal

Entrance

Metal

Organ body

Positiv

Regal

Metal

Electric

Wood

Keyboard

Meantone

Keyboard

Short49 keys

Short61 keys

Equal

St. MartinMendrisio, CH

How to?Organ

Organ body

Hauptwerk

PrincipalFlute

WoodMetal

Organ body

Positiv

Regal

Metal Wood

How to?

Organ

St. MartinMendrisio, CH

OrganOrgan

Choir

Mobile

Transept

How to?

Organ

Organ body

Hauptwerk

Principal Regal

Keyboard

Short 61 keys

St. MartinMendrisio, CH

How to?

Organ

Organ body

Hauptwerk

Principal Regal

Keyboard

Short 61 keys

St. MartinMendrisio, CH

How to?Organ

Organ body

Hauptwerk

PrincipalFlute

WoodMetal

Organ body

Positiv

Regal

Metal Wood

How to?Organ

Organ body

Hauptwerk

PrincipalFlute

WoodMetal

Organ body

Positiv

Regal

Metal Wood

Pression

Pression

Lead 20% Tin 80%

Keyboard

Short 50 keys

Diatonic Chromatic

Ivory Ebony

Walnut

How to?

Organ body

Before: Action: After:

Regal

removeOrgan body

Meantone modify Equal

St. Martin

Organ

Museum St. Martin

Organ

Museumrelocate

How to?

• By hand? No way!

How to?

• IT support:– On data acquisition:

• Wizards, GUIs

– On data validation:• Automatic error detection

– On data visualization:• Optimize view according to the content

– Zoom, timebar, multimedia content, etc.

– On data processing:• AI

Geolocalization

• Adding :– Can be inferred from street/building names– Visualization over a map

GPS coords

City MuseumPositiv

Geolocalization

• Adding :– Geographical-based queries• Where is the closest meantone instrument to my

home?

– Regional statistics• What is the density of Regal in the Paris area?

GPS coords

WWW

• Web-oriented infrastructure– à la Wikipedia• Different user levels (from visitors to content providers)

– A single application for everything• No need for MS-Access

– Typical Wiki-like content:• History of the building, stop descriptions, famous

organists who played, etc.

WWW

• Distributed infrastructure– One server per country– Synching data overnight• Backup• Performance

Extra features

• Web-site to brochure

Extra features

• 2D barcodes

Extra features

• Mobile app– GPS– Organ as tags

Extra features

• Mobile support for data gathering– Simplified data input• Multimedia• GPS coords• Following a protocol• Automatic verification

– Corollary tools• Temperament recognizer?

Thanks!