Organize my digital library
Persona
Jorge
Goal
Jorge manages a digital library of scores. He aims at describing each score with a rich set of contextual information, although a comprehensive descritpion is often not possible. Among these information, one finds
- The musical work (or ‘Opus’) this score belongs to. A score can cover a whole Opus (e.g., a symphony) or only a part of it (e.g., the third movement). Additionally, it can contain only some parts, all the parts, a trasnscription for non-original instruments, etc. Jorge wants to preserve each score at the appropriate level, with an adequate referencing (e.g., the official Opus number in a standard catalogue exists, K234.a, of BWV192, etc.)
- Licence and copyright information
- Relations to standard external resources to refer to, e.g., composers or other kind of authorships
- An organisation in collections, clear and flexible
- Tools to manage this organisation and search for relevant scores.
Scenario
The dashboard presents an overview of the classifying dimensions. Some of them might be hierarchical in nature (for instance the region/country/city classification). Whenever a dimension is chosen, the dashboard adapts to this new context by refining the classification of scores based on sub-dimensions.
Competency questions
CQ1: Is there a digital space to represent and describe the concept of “Opus”, and store digital scores related to an opus ?
CQ2: Is my collections and subcollections organisation based on clear concepts (e.g., genre, composer, period…) to gather Opuses ?
CQ3: Am I able to nagivate, search and visualize my collections and opus ?
CQ4: Can I examine features extracted from digital scores (e.g., tonality, when relevant, number of parts, etc.) ?
CQ5: Identify the dimensions and/or features that are relevant to support an on-the-fly reorganization of the digital library, whenever the standard organization does not meet the user’s expectations
CQ6: Can I progressively explore the content of my library, adding criteria to refine large results ?
Resources
In terms of digital tools, Jorge wants a dashboard that gives him at a glance on overview of a score library content. The overview shows statistics on the library organized after the many dimensions that can be used to classify score: composer, period, countries/region/city, style, length, tonality, prominent patterns, orchestration, etc.