On 5/29/07, Keith <keithold(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Regards
Keith Old
Sent to you by Keith via Google Reader: Royal Academy of Music
innovates with new online music encyclopaedia -
PublicTechnology.net
via music - Google News on May 29, 2007
Royal Academy of Music innovates with new online music encyclopaedia
PublicTechnology.net, UK - 2 hours ago
The Royal Academy of Music has signed a deal to use NetworkedPlanet's
TMCore information management solution to power its new online
multi-dimensional music ...
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Folks,
That didn't work out too well. I must not use Google Reader to send to the
list.
Anyway, this is the story linked to.
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The Royal Academy of
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signed a deal to use
NetworkedPlanet <http://www.networkedplanet.com/>'s TMCore information
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to power its new online multi-dimensional music index - the
RAMline.
The platform will provide an intelligent navigation system for what has the
potential to become the largest and most comprehensive online
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on the internet, linking profiles, discographies, performances and
musical compositions of any
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genre.
The TMCore topic map engine will make it easy for users - initially
academics and Academy students and in the future, music enthusiasts
worldwide - to locate and browse over 100,000 individual in-house and
external resources, such as sound clips, images, websites, and details of
live performances.
Among the in-house resources that will be drawn together to form the site
will be the Academy's existing music libraries, collections, and teaching
materials, as well as new content created by its students as part of their
research assignments. External resources such as online dictionaries and
record company databases will also be integrated into the system. As each
new resource is added, the
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topic, theme and relationship metadata to each one, enabling it to
be categorised as part of a larger grid of files - all connected
semantically.
Antony Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Creative Technology at the Royal Academy of
Music, commented: "The RAMline project is hugely ambitious - it aims to
bring together all of the Academy's internal and external resources, and
will offer a completely new way of looking at music history. It has the
potential to become the largest and most comprehensive online music resource
on the internet, which will serve as a learning and research tool for our
students and, in the future, a knowledge portal for the public. Using topic
maps allows us to create, locate and access each resource rapidly and
easily."
"The scale and nature of this project are ideal to demonstrate fully the
benefits of topic maps," added Kal Ahmed, Founder of NetworkedPlanet. "As
the index grows, navigation becomes more and more problematic, especially
considering much of the content is stored in different locations. Adding
topic maps to each resource - either when it is created or when its details
are imported into the system - allows extra metadata properties to be
attached to it, such as genre, date or city. A detailed 'map' can then be
created between this metadata, allowing rapid navigation according to
keywords, relationships and themes."
The user interface to the index will have an innovative design, with each
musician, composer and work given a dynamically-generated timeline -
allowing deep and powerful navigation. The TMCore server will store and
manage 'topic maps' of the entire content of the RAMline. Each topic
contains metadata which holds information about the file, links to related
documents and links to other topics, creating a map of knowledge. This map
can be browsed or searched by end-users to find information resources via
key concepts. The result is a detailed index of the information resources
across a number of systems via a single unified information portal.
*About The RAMline *
In 2006, the Academy began building a unique index of digitised archives and
online resources, together with a specialised tool that allows this index to
be browsed and searched intuitively by students, staff and visitors. As well
as an ever-expanding catalogue of musicians and of musical works, the
RAMline links to manuscript sources and published editions, live
performances and recordings, musical criticism and comment. The RAMline
simultaneously displays a timeline of musical history and the life-cycle of
any piece of music, from antiquity to the present, and will be used to chart
each student's musical profile at the Academy and beyond. The RAMline is the
focus of a Teaching and Research Award from the University of London's
Centre for Distance Education.
The Royal Academy of Music is Britain's senior conservatoire, and since 1822
has prepared students for successful careers in music according to the
constantly evolving demands of the profession. Academy musicians study for
University of London degrees in varied programmes including instrumental
performance, composition, jazz, musical theatre and opera. The Academy's
student community is truly international, with over 50 countries
represented. The Academy has recently invested substantially in creative
technology and collaborates closely with the Media Lab at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, MIT.
Regards
Keith Old