OMRAS2 Main Web

Online Music Recognition And Searching

A Distributed Research Environment for Music Informatics and Computational Musicology

OMRAS2 will develop a virtual research environment that is investigating new methods for navigating through large collections of music. The tools developed in this research environment will be used for music search and navigation by different user communities:

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OMRAS2 Research Workshops

Goldsmiths Digital Studios is hosting a series of intensive research workshops covering a range of topics, tools, data sets and Use Cases for the ORMAS2 project. These workshops ran from April 2007 - July 2007 and started again in October 2007 and will continue indefinately for the duration of the project.

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OMRAS2 Objectives

• To perform research on, and provide a distributed, extensible, tailorable interactive research environment offering tools and services to the Music Informatics and related research communities (WP1, WP2)

• To perform research in algorithms and representations for Music Informatics systems focusing on i) distributed temporal data bases, ii) Grid-based indexing and searching of music, iii) knowledge representations of music, iv) large-collection user interfaces, efficient distributed high-dimensional nearest neighbour searching, vi) automatic harmonic structure analysis, vii) automatic alignment of legacy metadata with audio. [ i)-iii) in WP1; iv)-vi) in WP2; vii) in WP4]

• To propose and research a Web Services model for collaborative Music Informatics problem solving by collaborating with several partners (WP3) and provide models for future, commercial, Semantic Music Web Services

• To propose and investigate the audio editing, and other metaphors, as a unifying front-end for deploying resources (WP1, WP4).

• To perform research on the value of subjective evaluation of Music Informatics systems, (WP4).

• To develop and publish best practice in providing resources for OMRAS2 and provide annotated test sets (WP1, WP4).

OMRAS2 Work Packages

You are invited to expand on and refactor the following topics. New Webs will emerge for Development and Documentation as they progress.
Visit the TWiki Web to learn how to extend these pages with your own contributions.

WP 1: InfrastructureDev

the core system infrastructure built on a Web Services architecture

WP 2: ToolDev

tools that will plug into the OMRAS2 Core: indexing, search, visual interfaces

WP 3: OmrasCollaborators

collaboration with music users such as musicologists and music search engine and download companies

WP 4: OmrasEvaluation

evaluation of the system components for a range of MusicApplications

Where's OMRAS 1?

OMRAS2 arose out of the original OMRAS (Online Music Recognition and Searching), an international project funded by the JISC (UK) and the NSF (US) from 1999 to 2003. Visit the original OMRAS web-site.

Deliverables

* System Version 1 : June 2008

* OMRAS2 Workshop 1: June 2008

* System Version 2: Dec 2010

* OMRAS2 Workshop 2: Dec 2010

Interesting Links to music-related sites

InterestingLinks is a collection of websites that are music related and possibly of interest to researchers involved in OMRAS2.

Main Web Utilities

• WelcomeGuest - for first time visitors
• Registration - become a OMRAS2 user
• TWikiUsers - list of users of this OMRAS2 site
• TWikiGroups - list of groups used for access control
•   - advanced search
• WebTopicList - all topics in alphabetical order
• WebChanges - recent topic changes in this web
• WebNotify - subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when topics change
• WebRss, WebAtom - RSS and ATOM news feeds of topic changes
• WebStatistics - listing popular topics and top contributors
• WebPreferences - preferences of this web

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Funding

Queen Mary EPSRC Reference: EP/E017614/1
Goldsmiths EPSRC Reference: EP/E02274X/1

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