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From Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Lab

We focus on developing and evaluating practices, frameworks, and tools for the design and construction of worldwide distributed digital music archives and libraries. Over the last few millennia, humans have amassed an enormous amount of information and cultural material that is scattered around the world. It is becoming abundantly clear that the optimal path for acquisition is to distribute the task of digitizing the wealth of historical and cultural heritage material that exists in analogue formats, which may include books, manuscripts, music scores, maps, photographs, videos, analogue tapes, and phonograph records. In order to achieve this goal, libraries, museums, and archives throughout the world, large or small, need well-researched policies, proper guidance, and efficient tools to digitize their collections and to make them available economically. The research conducted within the program will address unique and imminent challenges posed by the digitization and dissemination of music media.

We are located in the Music Technology Area of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Contents 1 Research Areas 2 Upcoming Events 3 People 3.1 Supervisor 3.2 Doctoral Students 3.3 Masters Students 3.4 Undergraduate Students 3.5 Alumni 4 Publications 5 Software 6 Hardware 7 Photos 8 Lab Resources 8.1 Previous Activities

Research Areas

• Preservation
• Audio Quality
• Optical music recognition (OMR)
• Automatic Metadata Extraction
• Interlibrary Communication
• Automatic Music Classification
• Vocal Intonation

Upcoming Events

People

Supervisor

• Ichiro Fujinaga

Doctoral Students

• Ashley Burgoyne (blog)
• Johanna Devaney
• Andrew Hankinson (blog)
• Jason Hockman
• Beinan Li (blog)
• Cory McKay

Masters Students

• Jordan Smith

Undergraduate Students

• Jessica Thompson

Alumni

• Laurent Pugin, Postdoctoral Researcher
• Robert Ferguson: Software Developer/Programmer. Digital Knowledge Center, Johns Hopkins University
• Rebecca Fiebrink (blog) Rebecca's Summary of UCI Database
• Catherine Lai (blog)
• Daniel McEnnis (blog)
• Adam Tindale: Ph.D. University of Victoria

Publications

Software

Some of the software tools we're working on.

• jMIR
• Aruspix
• Gamera

Hardware

Photos

Lab Resources

Logos, code snippets, links, and other miscellaneous wonders.

Previous Activities

• ISMIR 2009 October 26-30, Kobe, Japan
• Symposium on Empirical Methods for Music Theorists
• Workshop on Expressive Performance