The design and implementation of neuma, a collaborative digital scores library: requirements, architecture, and models

摘要

The Web-induced emergence of massive storage capabilities and ubiquitous communication means has had a significant impact on the digital preservation of cultural artifacts. Music, with its large, millenary-old corpus, has been one of the main beneficiaries of this movement, with the design and implementation of digital libraries that can store and organize a wealth of digitized and symbolic scores, along with other information such as audio files and ontologies. The neuma platform presented in this paper is both a repository and a service provider for musicians and musicologists to help them "publish, annotate, query, transform, and analyze scores." Its long-term goal is to be the nexus of collaborative efforts focusing on the analysis of large music corpora.