The Performed Music Ontology project aims to develop a BIBFRAME-based ontology for performed music in all formats, with a particular emphasis on clarifying and expanding on the modelling of works, events, and their contributors. The work is a collaborative effort of Stanford University, the Music Library Association (MLA), the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), the Library of Congress, and the PCC, with participation of LD4P partner institutions.
Timeline (initial)
- Written evaluation of the BIBFRAME ontology in describing performed music, including a set of use cases to justify extending and/or expanding the ontology.
- Linked data ontology with a BIBFRAME core with for describing performed music.
- RDA profile to complement the ontology for shared use by the library community, including list of preferred vocabularies.
- Representative selection of resource descriptions created using the Performed Music Ontology.
- Best practices for augmenting and/or manipulating performed music MARC bibliographic records to improve conversion to the Performed Music Ontology.
- Evaluation of the project findings with a set of recommendations for further research and development.
- Presentation of project findings to appropriate library and linked data communities.
- Finalizing modeling of performers, medium of performance, and events in relation to works.
Community Engagement
- Presentations and community engagement at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) conference (San Antonio, May 10-13).
Linked Data Creation
Tool Exploration / Requirements Definition
- PMO in Protégé
Collaboration
- medium of performance modeling shared with RSC Music Working Group
Nancy Lorimer (lead) (Stanford)
Kirk-Evan Billet (MLA; Peabody Institute-Johns Hopkins)
Chew Chiat Naun (PCC; Cornell)
Greta de Groat (Stanford)
Arcadia Falcone (Stanford)
Caitlin Hunter (ARSC; LC)
Kevin Kishimoto (Stanford)
Wendy Sistrunk (ARSC; U Missouri, Kansas City)
Jim Soe-Nyun (MLA; UC San Diego)
Hilary Thorsen (Stanford)
Valerie Weinberg (LC)
Link to working documents (for partners only)
Analysis/Modeling
- Gathered existing use cases for performed music metadata and developed further use cases.
- Surveyed existing linked data efforts related to performed music.
- Preliminary position paper on titles (submitted to all ontology group)
- Analyzed BIBFRAME and added classes and properties relevant to performed music.
- Submitted added classes of bf:Identifier, definition changes to music-related bf:Identifier subclasses, and bf:Identifier subclass changes to LC
- Modeled performed-music-specific concepts including thematic catalog and opus numbers and musical key and mode.
Linked Data Creation
Presentations
- Linked Data for Production: Stanford Projects
presentation by Nancy Lorimer, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, February 2017 - Linked Data for Performed Music: a performed music ontology extension to BIBFRAME 2.0
presentation by Kevin Kishimoto & Nancy Lorimer, Music Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Fla., February 2017 - Linked Data for Performed Music: an extension to BIBFRAME 2.0 for production & archival cataloging of sound recordings & music videos
presentation by Nancy Lorimer, BIBFRAME Update Forum, ALA Midwinter, Atlanta, Ga., January 2017 - BIBFRAME beyond books: explorations in extending BIBFRAME 2.0 to improve discovery of performed music
presentation by Nancy Lorimer & Michelle Futornick, PCC Participants' Meeting, ALA Midwinter, Atlanta, Ga., January 2017 - Linked Data for Performed Music: a Linked Data for Production project
presentation by Nancy Lorimer, Heads of Cataloging Interest Group, ALA Annual, Orlando, 2016
