next-generation subject access for music: infrastructure needs
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Riley, Jenn. "Next-generation Subject Access for Music: Infrastructure Needs." Music Library Association Annual Meeting, February 21, 2008, Newport, RI.TRANSCRIPT
Jenn RileyIndiana University Digital Library Program
Topical terms Instrumentation (“medium of performance”) Form/genre/style Geographic Temporal Cultural groups Language Names
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Ethnomusicological Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive
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Controlled Vocabulary Maintenance Tool
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Annotation tool
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IN Harmony: Sheet Music from IndianaFaceted Browse
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IN Harmony: Sheet Music from IndianaItem Display
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Sheet Music Cataloging Tool
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Variations Digital Music Library
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Variations Cataloging Tool
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Some Variations Vocabularies
Assist with cataloging Provide collocation of like resources Facilitate browsing Expand user queries
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For full integration of controlled vocabularies into cataloging tools and end-user interfaces◦ Faceted vocabularies◦ Robust syndetic structures◦ Openly available vocabulary files◦ Real-time querying of vocabularies via Web
Services
All of these are in progress, but NONE is quite there yet.
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Catalogers, managers, and system designers must work collaboratively
Remember why controlled subject access is valuable, but be flexible as to how it is implemented
Streamline controlled vocabulary creation process as much as possible
Learn about the technologies involved Make our vocabularies available openly for
machine access
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These presentation slides: <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/mla2008/mla2008.ppt>
Handout: <http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/mla2008/handout.pdf>
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