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