Interdisciplinary Research Issues in Music Information Retrieval : ISMIR 2000 – 2002

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is an interdisciplinary research area that has grown out of the need to manage burgeoning collections of music in digital form. Its diverse disciplinary communities, exemplified by the recently established ISMIR conference series, have yet to articulate a common research agenda or agree on methodological principles and metrics of success. In order for MIR to succeed, researchers need to work with real user communities and develop research resources such as reference music collections , so that the wide variety of techniques being developed in MIR can be meaningfully compared with one another. Out of these efforts, a common MIR practice can emerge.