Music Life Cycle Support through Ontologies

International audienceThe focus of this paper is the exploration of ontologies as ameans for knowledge sharing in music information retrievalscenarios. Our approach is intended to support the complete“life cycle of digital music” and focuses on the implicationsof a digital world for all the actors involved in the processof creation, consumption and modification of such entities.As a novelty we take care about legal aspects, digital rightsmanagement being heavily tangled in such scenarios.MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 vocabularies are considered asbasic ingredients for our ontology which ensures in this wayinteroperability within the multimedia delivery and musicresearch communities