The MIDI linked data cloud

Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Rinke Hoekstra, Aldo Gangemi, Peter Bloem, Reinier de Valk, Bas Stringer, Berit Janssen, Victor de Boer, Alo Allik, Stefan Schlobach, Kevin Page

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Abstract

The study of music is highly interdisciplinary, and thus requires the combination of datasets from multiple musical domains, such as catalog metadata (authors, song titles, dates), industrial records (labels, producers, sales), and music notation (scores). While today an abundance of music metadata exists on the Linked Open Data cloud, linked datasets containing interoperable symbolic descriptions of music itself, i.e. music notation with note and instrument level information, are scarce. In this paper, we describe the MIDI Linked Data Cloud dataset, which represents multiple collections of digital music in the MIDI standard format as Linked Data using the novel midi2rdf algorithm. At the time of writing, our proposed dataset comprises 10,215,557,355 triples of 308,443 interconnected MIDI files, and provides Web-compatible descriptions of their MIDI events. We provide a comprehensive description of the dataset, and reflect on its applications for research in the Semantic Web and Music Information Retrieval communities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2017 - 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMiriam Fernandez, Claudia d’Amato, Valentina Tamma, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Freddy Lecue, Christoph Lange, Juan Sequeda, Jeff Heflin
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages156-164
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319682037
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2017 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: Oct 21 2017Oct 25 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10588 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2017
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period10/21/1710/25/17

Keywords

  • Linked data
  • MIDI
  • Music interoperability

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