Music Publishing

Publishing Music Similarity Features on the Semantic Web

We describe the process of collecting, organising and publishing a large set of music similarity features produced by the SoundBite [10] playlist generator tool. These data can be a valuable asset in the development and evaluation of new Music Information Retrieval algorithms. They can also be used in Web-based music search and retrieval applications. For this reason, we make a database of feat...

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The Interactive - Music Network DE 4 . 3 . 1 Multimedia standards for music coding

This document reports the uses and practices in the domain of music coding in a multimedia environment. It reports about de facto or open standards which are in use in domains related to music, in its audio form as well as in its written form (scores), or even in structured audio forms (such as MIDI). Keyword List: Music, multimedia, infotainment, edutainment, music notation, standards, music l...

Value Chain Envy: Explaining New Entry and Vertical Integration in Popular Music

The desirability of establishing a value chain at a particular stage in a value system can be considered to depend on the relation between the value that can be created and the value that can be captured at that particular stage. Value chain envy motivates firms to invade the more desirable stages of the value system, either through new entry or vertical integration. The feasibility of establis...

Why can’t I manage academic papers like MP3s? The evolution and intent of Metadata standards

This paper considers the deceptively simple question: Why can’t downloaded academic papers be managed in the simple and effective manner in which digital music files are managed? We make the case that the answer is different treatments of metadata. Two key differences are identified: Firstly, digital music metadata is standardized and moves with the content file, while academic metadata is not ...