Musical Genre Ontology

IE500By Norman Sung

Project Scope

Creating an ontology that relates the basic information of various different musical genres

Provide up-to-date musical genres

Information including date of origins, region, and main instruments of use

Creating Definitions

What is the scope of the ontology?

What terms do we need to discuss?

What are the properties of these terms?

What do you want to say about these term?

Definitions

Instrument - Any of various devices that can be used to produce musical tones or sound.

Music- Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

Music Genre- An expressive style of music.

Vocal- Rendered by or intended for singing.

Time Period- The categorization of time into discrete named blocks is called periodization.

Is-a Hierarchy

Existing Work

Musicontology.com

Daml.org/ontologies/276

http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html

Timeline ontology

Instrument ontology

Movie ontology

Similarities and Differences

has similar ideas regarding genre taxonomy

Updated genres and instrument classes and subclasses

Reduced multi-inheritance

Extended information

Examples from Ontology

Examples from Ontology

Examples from Ontology

Applications

Extension of music ontology

Used to categorize music for both personal use and research

refine searches in musical domain