[SHR17] Formalizing Quality Rules on Music Notation -- an Ontology-based Approach

Conférence Internationale avec comité de lecture : (TENOR) International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, May 2017, pp.1--7, Coruna, Spain,

Auteurs: S. Si-Said Cherfi , F. Hamdi , P. Rigaux , V. Thion , N. Travers

Mots clés: Digital Score Library, Ontology, Music Notation, MEI, MusicXML

Résumé: We address the issue of expressing and evaluating quality rules on music notation. Since music engraving is a highly flexible process that can hardly be constrained by universal principles and rules, score production still heavily relies on the user expertise in order to make context-dependent decisions. We therefore propose a quality management approach based on a formal modeling of this expertise. We show how to use such a model to express context-aware rules that can be evaluated either a priori to prevent the production of faulty notations, or a posteriori to assess quality indicators regarding a score or a corpus of scores. The paper proposes a simple ontology for musical notation, shows how quality rules can be formally stated and evaluated, and illustrates the approach with examples drawn from a large digital library of scores.

BibTeX

@inproceedings {
	SHR17,
	title	=	"{Formalizing Quality Rules on Music Notation -- an Ontology-based Approach}",
	author	=	" S. Si-Said Cherfi and F. Hamdi and P. Rigaux and V. Thion and N. Travers ",
	booktitle	=	"{(TENOR) International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation}",
	year	=	2017,
	month	=	"May",
	pages	=	"1--7",
	address	=	"Coruna, Spain",
}