JazzCats: Navigating an RDF triplestore of integrated performance metadata

Daniel Bangert, J. Stephen Downie, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Yun Hao

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    Abstract

    Applying Linked Data techniques to musical metadata can facilitate new paths of musicological inquiry. JazzCats: Jazz Collection of Aggregated Triples is a prototype project interlinking four discrete jazz performance datasets and external sources as references. Tabular, relational, and graph legacy datasets have necessitated different RDF production and ingestion workflows to support scholarly study of performance traditions. This paper highlights critical processes of data curation for digital libraries, including quality assessment of the ingested datasets. In addition, we describe research questions enabled by JazzCats, raise musicological implications, and offer suggestions to overcome current limitations.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of DLfM 2018
    Subtitle of host publication5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    Pages74-77
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450365222
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Sept 2018
    Event5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, DLfM 2018 - Paris, France
    Duration: 28 Sept 2018 → …

    Publication series

    NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

    Conference

    Conference5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, DLfM 2018
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityParis
    Period28/09/18 → …

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