The project focuses on:
The development of a specialized musical ontology that will contain innovative features, as it will allow the integration of quality attributes , that will be automatically extracted from musical scores. This ontology will meet the needs of music collections and will be based on open platforms for ontology management and related international conceptual schemas. The aim of this action is the international promotion of the proposed musical ontology so that it participates in the international scientific discussion on music and cultural documentation in general.
The creation of technological products for gathering cultural content and their disposal to cultural reserve providers. Specifically, the project envisages the development and adaptation of the ReasonableGraph (RG) open source platform, based on the defined music ontology and the specific needs of music collections. The development of the RG platform will contribute 2 final products: one for the management needs of local music collection repositories, which is called Local Repository of Music Ontologies (TAMO) and one for the management needs of a collaborative central music repository, which is called Central Music Authority Archive (KeMKA). Our goal is to promote the ReasonableGraph platform in the Greek and international market as a repository for managing, not only music collections, but also as a repository for cultural reserve management in general, in order to fill the gap that exists in the international market and concerns the lack of repositories that support and apply openly interconnected data.
The creation of national cooperative networks for joint management and creation of cultural reserve by bodies that have similar cultural collections. In the project M.EL.O.S this cooperation is highlighted through the National Musical Entities (EAMO), in which, the participants will collaborate to establish entities related to Greek music such as music works and their performances, musicians and their discography and so on. These unique entities will be managed by the Central Music Authority Archive (KeMKA). Our goal is the adoption of KeMKA as a nodal point for the creation of established entities for music at the national level, with the integration of other bodes. Additionally, our goal is, also, to develop parallel national efforts for types of material related to other knowledge fields (e.g. historical archives, art collections, archival collections) which can be structured following the technology and collaborative policies of M.EL.O.S. Project
The development of methodology and techniques that will support the scientific enrichment of cultural reserve. This will be fulfilled in the project M.EL.O.S. with the creation of 10.500 fully developed and established musical entities, which will come from all three bodies that have relevant material. For these entities, documented and interconnected information will be provided in order to describe musical works, musical performances (e.g. recordings, music scores), publications (e.g. discography), persons or organizations (involved in music creation or production), musical events, archival material (related to the above entities) and relevant bibliography. The aim of this action is to demonstrate how scientific knowledge about a field of cultural reserve (in this case about music), can be formulated and recorded in semantic schemas and metadata management platforms, in order to guide similar initiatives in other fields of humanities.
The utilization of social networks and crowd sourcing for the enrichment and promotion of music collections and the cultural reverse in general. For this reason, the required supporting functions will be developed on the ReasonableGraph platform, as well as, 10 workshops will be held to inform and sensitize the music community, so that they can participate in the creation and qualitative enrichment of the cultural reserve.
The development of tool and methodologies for searching, linking, retrieving, presenting/visualizing and enriching semantically annotated information and knowledge contained in the collections. Part of the study will extend beyond the current scientific weighting, as it will thoroughly explore the development of metrics, for the combined use and quality attributes of musical content, in the inteface and presentation/representation of repository entities. The use of the tools and information will be possible for scholars, ordinary users and third-party organizations that want to exploit the metadata for research, entertainment and commercial purposes.
The promotion of the produced products of the project in the domestic and international market through the participation in 4 exhibitions in total.