Semantic annotation of digital music

  • Authors:

  • Fazilatur Rahman;Jawed Siddiqi

  • Affiliations:

  • Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences, Sheffield S1 2NU, UK;Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences, Sheffield S1 2NU, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In recent times, digital music items on the internet have been evolving in a vast information space where consumers try to find/locate the piece of music of their choice by means of search engines. The current trend of searching for music by means of music consumers@? keywords/tags is unable to provide satisfactory search results. It is argued that search and retrieval of music can be significantly improved provided end-users@? tags are associated with semantic information in terms of acoustic metadata - the latter being easy to extract automatically from digital music items. This paper presents a lightweight ontology that will enable music producers to annotate music against MPEG-7 description (with its acoustic metadata) and the generated annotation may in turn be used to deliver meaningful search results. Several potential multimedia ontologies have been explored and a music annotation ontology, named mpeg-7Music, has been designed so that it can be used as a backbone for annotating music items.