DocD's Recommended Reading for UPF 2004 Graduate School on Music Information Retrieval (MIR): Music Digital Library Lectures



General MIR Overviews

Downie, J. Stephen . 2003. Music information retrieval. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 37: 295-340. Available:
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/jdownie/protect/downie_mir_arist37.pdf

Futrelle, J. and J. S. Downie. 2003. Interdisciplinary research issues in music information retrieval: ISMIR 2000–2002. Journal of New Music Research 32 (2): 121-131. Available: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/jdownie/protect/futrelle_downie_jmnr_2003.pdf

Good Introduction to Information Retrieval Evaluation

Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean. 1992. The pragmatics of information retrieval experimentation,  revisited. Information Processing and Management 28 (4): 467-490. Available: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/jdownie/protect/tague92.pdf

Note: poorer quality PDF from scanned pages.

Good Metadata Overview

National Information Standards Organization. 2004. Understanding Metadata. Available:
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf

Resource Rich Set of Digital Library Materials

Browsing of Ben Gross's "webbliography" of Digital Library Information and Resources is suggested
http://bengross.com/dl/


J. Stephen Downie
30 September 2004