| dc.description.abstract | Extraction, representation, organisation and application of metadata about audio recordings
are in the concern of semantic audio analysis. Our broad interpretation, aligned with recent
developments in the field, includes methodological aspects of semantic audio, such as
those related to information management, knowledge representation and applications of the
extracted information. In particular, we look at how Semantic Web technologies may be used
to enhance information management practices in two audio related areas: music informatics
and music production.
In the first area, we are concerned with music information retrieval (MIR) and related
research. We examine how structured data may be used to support reproducibility and
provenance of extracted information, and aim to support multi-modality and context adaptation
in the analysis. In creative music production, our goals can be summarised as follows:
O↵-the-shelf sound editors do not hold appropriately structured information about the edited
material, thus human-computer interaction is inefficient. We believe that recent developments
in sound analysis and music understanding are capable of bringing about significant improvements
in the music production workflow. Providing visual cues related to music structure can
serve as an example of intelligent, context-dependent functionality.
The central contributions of this work are a Semantic Web ontology for describing recording
studios, including a model of technological artefacts used in music production, methodologies
for collecting data about music production workflows and describing the work of
audio engineers which facilitates capturing their contribution to music production, and finally
a framework for creating Web-based applications for automated audio analysis. This
has applications demonstrating how Semantic Web technologies and ontologies can facilitate
interoperability between music research tools, and the creation of semantic audio software, for
instance, for music recommendation, temperament estimation or multi-modal music tutoring | en_US |
