more mir

music-ir.org describes itself as the “virtual home of music information retrieval research”. on this website, you can find useful MIR info such as:

1. the IMIRSEL (International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory) project
2. a research bibliography, “vital research papers in the field of Music Information Retrieval”
3. links to past conferences and meetings: ISMIR (International Conference on Music Information Retrieval); SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) 2003 Workshop; Mid-West Regional Colloquium

music information retrieval (mir)

I’ve been interested in learning more about music information retrieval systems. here are a few resources i’ve been looking at:

*There’s a Google Tech Talk called “from sound synthesis to sound retrieval and back” by Xavier Serra of Music Technology Group at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Serra has quite a few projects in development from sound retrieval systems that look for similar harmonic structure or rhythm to developing tangible interfaces. He also demonstrates the “reacTable” which is an instrument that Bjork used on her Volta tour.

Some really cool things happening with MIR. With signal processing, users can access more than just what libraries normally catalogue (info attached to the physical format, digital info like text, digital sound data) and go further up the symantic ladder to obtain info like pitch, duration, timbre, intensity and further up the ladder as high as type of music, key of music, melody within a polyphonic piece, etc.

*“Information Retrieval for Music and Motion” by Meinard Muller is one of those good Springer books. I’m just getting into it now, but it looks pretty comprehensive. Two major parts: part 1 Analysis and retrieval techniques for music data; and part 2 Analysis and retrieval techniques for motion data.

ubiquitous computing and the future

Just stumbled upon this video: Vision of the Future (Part 1): the intelligent revolution

a very good explanation of Second Life, MUVES, web 3.0, and artificial intelligence. just watch it, man.

new issue of ABQLA bulletin

The Spring 2008 issue of the ABQLA Bulletin is out.

web2.you videos are up on the wiki

check out videos of two web2.you workshop presentations:

• Jessamyn West “Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarians 2.0″
• John Dupuis “Blogging for Professional Development”

social tagging colour experiment

I came across this blog post from Delores Labs where they report on data collection tasks from Mechanical Turk, “a marketplace where anonymous people can do tasks that take a small amount of time and training”.

There are 1300 colours and anonymous people were asked to label them.

guerillamail

a website that provides disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. In that time frame, you can read and reply to e-mails sent to the temporary e-mail address.

google earth hour interface

is black today out of respect for earth hour (or it so that people can cheat cuz it gives off less light in the dark?)

cool flickr related tag browser

a search engine that uses visualization and word mapping to display image results from flickr. read about it from the creators here.

stumblin thru sites

it’s starting to happen: i wrote a paper last year about how the concept of stumbleupon can be applied to OPACs and within websites cuz people like to channel surf.

now i see that as well as stumbling all websites and/or videos and/or images on the internet, the user can now use stumbleupon to stumble through WordPress, BBC, Blogspot, Wikipedia, Flickr, and more!