Abstract
The LinkedMusic Project seeks to enhance music research by creating a comprehensive global digital music library that integrates diverse online music databases. Unlike text-based search engines, music search is complicated by the complexity of musical content and the diversity of metadata schemas. This project addresses these challenges by converting metadata from various sources into RDF (Resource Description Framework) and storing it in a central graph database. The metadata will be indexed in SESEMMI (Search Engine System for Enhancing Music Metadata Interoperability), an open-source metasearch engine that supports simultaneous, multilingual searches across different databases. A key innovation is the development of the Universal Music Instrument Lexicon (UMIL), a crowdsourced platform for collecting and organizing multilingual information on musical instruments. UMIL will enable users worldwide to search for instruments by their local names, improving accessibility and cross-cultural understanding. SESEMMI will leverage Linked Data principles and demographic and cultural information from sources like Wikidata to enable inclusive and culturally sensitive searches. Large Language Models (LLMs) will convert natural language queries into SPARQL, allowing users to explore global music traditions, track performers’ careers, and analyze music trends on a large scale. By bringing together leading experts in ethnomusicology, library sciences, and music information retrieval, the LinkedMusic Project aims to advance music scholarship and performance, fostering new fields of inquiry and broadening access to the world’s musical heritage.
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Theme
2025 Special Focus—Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in the Humanities
KEYWORDS
Music Databases, Digital Library, Linked Data, LLMs, SPARQL
