Link To Sources
Persona
Jorge
Goal
Each Opus in Jorge’s library features at least one score that gives a description, using music notation, of the Opus content. There exist other sources, often (but not always) that relate to the same Opus: scan of music scores (e.g., Gallica or IMSLP), textbooks or manuscripts, audio and video documents. Jorge would like to refer to these source in order to, for instance, be able to give its visitors a link to listen to a music piece, or obtain additional information on the Opus, its historical context, its dissemination.
Scenario
The user interface of Jorge’s library shows mainly a rendering of the music score. It should be enriched with links that help to get a comprehensive list of textual, visual, audio or video sources. The visitor could then be invited to listen a part of the displayed score, or to look at a performance of the Opus by a specific artist.
Ideally, there would exist an alignment of score fragments at a given granularity (e.g., measures) and corresponding fragments in a source. For instance, all measure in a piano sonata would be aligned with a temporal inteerval in a performance. One can imagine that a parallel rendering of both representations would be possible, e.g., listening to the performance while highlighting at the same time the measure being played.
Competency questions
CQ1: Can I link digital sources to an Opus ?
CQ2: Can I refer to fragments of a scoree, eg., the first 10 measures, or part B of a movement ?
CQ3: Can I link fragments of sources and fragments of scores, such as for instance a measure in an Opus with a part of a reecording ?
Resources
The Web annotation ontology ? https://www.w3.org/ns/oa