Component id	https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/instrument/
Type	Ontology
Name	Music Instrument Ontology
Description	An ontology to describe instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties.
Image	https://github.com/polifonia-project/music-instrument-ontology/blob/main/diagrams/music-instrument-main-entities.png
Work package	WP2
Pilot	INTERLINK ORGANS BELLS
Project	polifonia-project
Resource	ontology/music-instrument.owl
Release date	13/04/2023
Release number	v1.0
Release link	https://github.com/polifonia-project/ontology-network/releases
Doi	10.5281/zenodo.7919970
Changelog	https://github.com/polifonia-project/ontology-network/releases
Licence	CC-BY_v4
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2023 Music Instrument Contributors
Contributors	Jacopo de Berardinis Nicolas Lazzari Valentina Anita Carriero Fiorela Ciroku
Related components	Informed by: polifoniacq-dataset Reuses: https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/core/ Story: Organ Comparison (Story) Resource Reliability (Story) Organ Knowledge (Story) Organ Trends (Story) Organ Builders (Story) Persona: Paul (Persona) Amy (Persona) Frank (Persona)

@article{de berardinis_poltronieri_lazzari_carriero_2023, title={Polifonia Ontology Network (PON)}, url={https://zenodo.org/record/7919970}, DOI={10.5281/ZENODO.7919970}, abstractNote={Polifonia Ontology Network v1.0 Release 🎉 The first stable release of the Polifonia Ontology Network is out! 🚀 The Polifonia Ontology Network is a collection of ontologies designed to support a wide range of musical applications and facilitate interoperability within the musical domain. This release includes various ontology modules that cover different aspects of music representation, metadata, instruments, sources, notations, and more. Ontology Modules Included: FULL 🌐 (pon:) - The FULL ontology module stored in this repository, which imports all the modules listed here. URI | Repository Core 💎 (core:) - Elements of general reuse and ontology design patterns. URI | Repository Music Meta 🎵 (mm:) - Achieving interoperability of music metadata. URI | Repository Music Representation 🎼 (mr:) - Foundational model to describe arbitrary musical content. URI | Repository Music Instrument 🎻 (mop:) - Instruments and their evolution through time and space. URI | Repository Source 📜 (src:) - Representing musical sources and their context of production. URI | Repository Tunes 🎵 (tunes:) - A specialization of Music Meta for folk music. URI | Repository CoMeta 📚 (com:) - An extension of Music Meta to represent music corpora. URI | Repository Music Projection 🎵 (mp:) - Achieving interoperability of music notation systems. URI | Repository Organs 🎹 (organ:) - A rich descriptive model of organs and building methods. URI | Repository Bells 🔔 (bell:) - Describing bells, bell towers, and bell ringers. URI | Repository Music Algorithm 🧮 (mx:) - Computational methods for music and their parameterization. URI | Repository Music Analysis 🔍 (ma:) - Music analysis through reasoning using modal-tonal theories. URI | Repository Music Annotation 🎶 (ann:) - A wrapper of ontologies for music annotations (audio, symbolic). URI | Repository 🔗 For detailed information about each ontology module, please refer to the respective URIs. 🌐 For more information about the Polifonia project and its ongoing efforts, visit our website: https://polifonia-project.eu/}, publisher={Zenodo}, author={De Berardinis, Jacopo and Poltronieri, Andrea and Lazzari, Nicolas and Carriero, Valentina}, year={2023}, month={May} }

Music Instrument Ontology

The Instrument Module describes musical instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties. Given that numerous taxonomies of instruments into groups and families exist (e.g. Hornbostel-Sachs, MIMO, Mu- sicBrainz) and finding common categorisations is an open problem, our module provides an abstraction capable to express arbitrary classifications. This is achieved by leveraging the Information-Realisation and the Collection ODPs. Overall, the module allows to: (i) refer to instruments as entities (an instrumen- tation of a piece for “piano” and “viola”) as well as conceptually (e.g. a viola has 4 strings); (ii) support the integration with different taxonomies and vocabularies; (iii) describe the evolution of instruments in time and space (e.g. a viola as a cultural heritage object being relocated). This provides a foundational level where contributors can “plug” their instrument-specific ontologies.

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