musicSpace: Using and Evaluating e-Science Design Methods and Technologies to Improve Access to Heterogeneous Music Resources for Musicology

musicSpace：使用和评估电子科学设计方法和技术来改善音乐学对异构音乐资源的访问

• 批准号: AH/E006647/1
• 负责人: Mc Schraefel
• 金额: $ 43.26万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE006647%2F1
• 关键词: musicSpace; Using; Evaluating; Science; Design

SummaryInformation resources for Arts and Humanities researchers are increasingly being made available via the Internet, while at the same time, researchers themselves are often seeking to break down traditional subject barriers and ask research questions that are interdisciplinary in nature. However, current on-line resources remain isolated leaving researchers to carry out multiple searches across multiple systems in order obtain materials corresponding to well-defined research questions. Within a single source the search options are often limited, giving insufficient control over criteria for the effective framing of research questions.In this project, we take proven e-science-based technology and design approach, embodied in the mSpace software framework, and apply it to a range of significant music data collections, providing a single point of entry with exceptional ease of navigation. Working with Arts and Humanities Research Council resources Cecilia, EPSRC CHARM, MIMAS's COPAC and with our commercial partners, the Oxford University Press's New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online, Naxos and RILM, the system will support research in 3 diverse areas of musicology - 19th-century Italian opera, Monteverdi performance, and electroacoustic works of the 20th century. This range of sources will provide information on many different aspects of music, including fundamental data on composers and works, historical recordings, collections and library holdings.Our approach integrates these heterogeneous sources, and provides a powerful, intuitive interface for complex exploration. Research questions are typically bound by a range of criteria along different dimensions (e.g. Italian comic Opera dating from 1830-1840 composed in Bologna) and mSpace provides an intuitive interface allowing the user to combine different slices through information, and to adjust and reorganise these slices easily. The boundaries of a particular search, engaging multiple data sources from databases to the Web, can be framed and reframed rapidly, such that queries that previously took days, weeks or longer to assemble can be answered within a few minutes. This fluidity encourages the asking of a variety of questions (given the low time cost involved) and further exploration of the information, so that previously un-discovered connections may be found. A key goal of the project is to evaluate use of the system over a period of real use for real research outcomes. To this end we have three participant communities involved: we will use the system to carry out research specified in the three areas above that would not be tractable without this system; we have also partnered with the Integra project for them to use the system for their research, and we will be doing a community release. From this range of participants, we will investigate the ways in which the system supports and effects research practice in order to tune it to improve that support for innovation and discovery.The project will therefore meet several related goals: to use eScience technologies and design methods (1) to automate the association of heterogeneous research resources (2) to provide interfaces that will reduce significantly the time needed to discover, access and coordinate such resources; (3) to enable new kinds of research questions to be addressed through new models of resource integration and interaction, and (4) to demonstrate an extensible, maintainable infrastructure that will support integration of new resources in other AH domains (5) to demonstrate the efficacy of these approaches for real innovative research.

摘要艺术和人文研究人员的信息资源越来越多地通过互联网提供，与此同时，研究人员本身也经常寻求打破传统的学科壁垒，提出跨学科性质的研究问题。然而，目前的在线资源仍然是孤立的，这使得研究人员不得不在多个系统上进行多次搜索，以便获得与明确定义的研究问题相对应的材料。在单一来源中，搜索选项往往是有限的，对研究问题的有效框架的标准没有足够的控制。在这个项目中，我们采用了基于电子科学的成熟技术和设计方法，体现在mSpace软件框架中，并将其应用到一系列重要的音乐数据集合中，提供了非常容易导航的单一切入点。该系统与艺术和人文研究理事会资源Cecilia、EPSRC Charm、Mimas‘s COPAC以及我们的商业合作伙伴牛津大学出版社的新格罗夫音乐和音乐家在线词典、Naxos和RILM合作，将支持音乐学3个不同领域的研究-19世纪意大利歌剧、蒙特维尔第表演和20世纪电声作品。这一范围的来源将提供音乐的许多不同方面的信息，包括关于作曲家和作品的基本数据、历史录音、藏品和图书馆藏书。我们的方法集成了这些不同的来源，并为复杂的探索提供了一个强大的、直观的界面。研究问题通常受到不同维度的一系列标准的约束(例如，1830-1840年在博洛尼亚创作的意大利喜剧歌剧)，mSpace提供了一个直观的界面，允许用户通过信息组合不同的切片，并轻松地调整和重组这些切片。涉及从数据库到Web的多个数据源的特定搜索的边界可以被快速地框定和重新组织，这样以前需要几天、几周或更长时间才能组装的查询可以在几分钟内得到回答。这种流动性鼓励人们提出各种各样的问题(考虑到所涉及的时间成本很低)，并进一步探索信息，以便找到以前未发现的联系。该项目的一个关键目标是评估该系统在一段时间内对实际研究成果的实际使用情况。为此，我们有三个参与社区：我们将使用该系统进行上述三个领域中指定的研究，如果没有这个系统，这些研究将无法处理；我们还与Integra项目合作，让他们使用该系统进行他们的研究，我们将进行社区发布。从这一范围的参与者中，我们将调查系统支持和影响研究实践的方式，以便调整它，以改善对创新和发现的支持。因此，该项目将实现几个相关目标：使用电子科学技术和设计方法(1)自动关联不同的研究资源(2)提供接口，显著减少发现、访问和协调此类资源所需的时间；(3)通过资源整合和交互的新模式来解决新类型的研究问题，以及(4)展示可扩展、可维护的基础设施，该基础设施将支持在其他AH领域中整合新资源(5)以展示这些方法对于真正的创新研究的有效性。