Music Life Cycle Support through Ontologies

International audienceThe focus of this paper is the exploration of ontologies as a<br />means for knowledge sharing in music information retrieval<br />scenarios. Our approach is intended to support the complete<br />“life cycle of digital music” and focuses on the implications<br />of a digital world for all the actors involved in the process<br />of creation, consumption and modification of such entities.<br />As a novelty we take care about legal aspects, digital rights<br />management being heavily tangled in such scenarios.<br />MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 vocabularies are considered as<br />basic ingredients for our ontology which ensures in this way<br />interoperability within the multimedia delivery and music<br />research communities