From fd5866d2e1fdac9830496b573fa530a5fafbf6fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Fillon Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:08:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Include reviewer corrections --- CMMR_2013/cmmr_2013_Telemeta.tex | 38 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/CMMR_2013/cmmr_2013_Telemeta.tex b/CMMR_2013/cmmr_2013_Telemeta.tex index 82ff400..2d5bc7a 100644 --- a/CMMR_2013/cmmr_2013_Telemeta.tex +++ b/CMMR_2013/cmmr_2013_Telemeta.tex @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ \mainmatter % start of an individual contribution % first the title is needed -\title{TELEMETA, audio web CMS for ethnomusicological sound archives} +\title{TELEMETA, audio web Content Management System for ethnomusicological sound archives} % a short form should be given in case it is too long for the running head \titlerunning{TELEMETA, audio web CMS for ethnomusicological sound archives} @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ CREM, LESC, UMR CNRS 7186\\ MAE, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, \begin{abstract} -\emph{Telemeta} is an open-source audio web CMS dedicated to digital sound archives secure storing, indexing and publishing. The demonstration aims at presenting the features offered by this platform in the context of \emph{ethnomusicological} research. It focuses on the enhance and collaborative user-experience in accessing the audio items and associated metadata and on the possibility for the expert user to further enrich those metadata. \emph{Telemeta} also provides integrated audio signal processing tools for automatic analysis of the sound items. +\emph{Telemeta} is an open-source audio web Content Management System (CMS) dedicated to digital sound archives secure storing, indexing and publishing. The demonstration aims at presenting the features offered by this platform in the context of \emph{ethnomusicological} research. It focuses on the enhance and collaborative user-experience in accessing the audio items and associated metadata and on the possibility for the expert user to further enrich those metadata. \emph{Telemeta} also provides integrated audio signal processing tools for automatic analysis of the sound items. \keywords{Sound archives, Metadata, Ethnomusicology, Database, Audio labelling, Web platform} \end{abstract} @@ -106,30 +106,30 @@ An overview of the Telemeta's web interface is illustrated in Figure~\ref{fig:Te Telemeta is dedicated to professionals who wants to easily organize, backup, archive and publish documented sound collections of audio files, CDs, digitalized vinyls and magnetic tapes over a strong database, in accordance with open web standards. \emph{Telemeta} architecture is flexible and can easily be adapted to particular database organization of a given sound archives. -Regarding web aspects, the main features of \emph{Telemeta} are : +Regarding web aspects, the main features of \emph{Telemeta} are: \vspace{-0.1cm} \begin{itemize} \item \emph{Pure HTML} web user interface including high level \emph{search engine} \item Smart \emph{workflow management} with contextual user lists, profiles and rights % \item RSS and JSON feed generators % \item XML serialized backup -\item Strong SQL or Oracle backend -\item MVC architecture +\item Strong Structured Query Language (SQL) or Oracle backend +\item Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture \end{itemize} -Beside database management, the audio support is mainly provided through an external component : TimeSide which is described in Section~\ref{sec:Timeside} +Beside database management, the audio support is mainly provided through an external component, TimeSide, which is described in Section~\ref{sec:Timeside}. \subsection{Metadata}\label{sec:metadata} In addition to the audio data, an efficient and dynamic management of the associated metadata is also required. %Consulting metadata provide both an exhaustive access to valuable information about the source of the data and to the related work of peer researchers. Dynamically handling metadata in a collaborative manner enable to optimize the continuous process of knowledge gathering and enrichment of the materials in the database. %One of the major challenge is thus the standardization of audio and metadata formats with the aim of long-term preservation and usage of the different materials. -The compatibility with other systems is facilitated by the integration of the metadata standards protocols \emph{Dublin Core} and \emph{OAI-PMH} \cite{DublinCore,OAI-PMH}. - -%Metadata provide two different kinds of information about the audio item : contextual information and annotations. +The compatibility with other systems is facilitated by the integration of the metadata standards protocols \emph{Dublin Core} and \emph{OAI-PMH} (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) \cite{DublinCore,OAI-PMH}. +\vspace{-0.2cm} +%Metadata provide two different kinds of information about the audio item: contextual information and annotations. \paragraph{Contextual Information} -Regarding ethnomusicology, contextual information could be geographic, cultural and musical. It could also store archives related information and include related materials in any multimedia format. +Regarding ethnomusicology, contextual information could be geographic, cultural and musical. It could also store archives related information and include related materials in any multimedia format. \vspace{-0.2cm} \paragraph{Annotation and segmentation} -Metadata also consist in temporal information such as \emph{time-coded makers} with comments and \emph{segmentation} according to ontology relevant for ethnomusicology (e.g. speech versus singing voice segment, chorus, ...) -It should be notice that those annotations and segmentation can be done either by an human expert or by some audio processing automatic analysis (see Section~\ref{sec:Timeside}). +Metadata also consist in temporal information such as \emph{time-coded makers} with comments and \emph{segmentation} according to ontology relevant for ethnomusicology (e.g. speech versus singing voice segment, chorus, ...). +It should be notice that those annotations and segmentation can be done either by a human expert or by some audio processing automatic analysis (see Section~\ref{sec:Timeside}). \section{TimeSide}\label{sec:Timeside}\vspace{-0.2cm} @@ -137,18 +137,18 @@ One specificity of the Telemeta architecture is to rely on an external component \begin{figure}[htbp] \centering - \includegraphics[width=10cm]{img/timeside_schema.pdf} + \includegraphics[width=10.5cm]{img/timeside_schema.pdf} \caption{TimeSide architecture (see \url{https://code.google.com/p/timeside/})}\label{fig:TimeSide_Archi} \end{figure} \vspace{-0.4cm} \subsection{Audio management} -TimeSide provides the following main features : +TimeSide provides the following main features: \begin{itemize} \item \emph{Secure archiving, editing and publishing of audio files} over internet. \item Smart \emph{audio player} with enhance visualization (waveform, spectrogram) -\item \emph{Multi-format support} : read all available audio and video formats through Gstreamer, transcoding with smart streaming and caching methods% (FLAC, OGG, MP3, WAV and WebM) +\item \emph{Multi-format support}: read all available audio and video formats through Gstreamer, transcoding with smart streaming and caching methods% (FLAC, OGG, MP3, WAV and WebM) % \item \emph{Playlist management} for all users with CSV data export \item "On the fly" \emph{audio analyzing, transcoding and metadata embedding} based on an easy plugin architecture @@ -158,16 +158,16 @@ TimeSide provides the following main features : TimeSide incorporates some state-of-the-art audio feature extraction libraries such as \href{http://aubio.org}{Aubio}, \href{http://yaafe.sourceforge.net}{Yaafe} and \href{http://www.vamp-plugins.org}{Vamp plugins} \cite{brossierPhD,yaafe_ISMIR2010,vamp-plugins}. This feature extraction capability enable to automatically analyzes every sound items in a given collection and display the results as a support to ethnomusicological studies. Further works on that subject driven by the DIADEMS project will incorporate advance Music Information Retrieval methods to provide automatic annotation, segmentation and similarity analysis. - +\vspace{-0.2cm} \section{Conclusion - Purpose of the demonstration}\vspace{-0.2cm} The demonstration aims at presenting the features offered by \emph{Telemeta} as detailed in Section~\ref{sec:Telemeta} in the context of ethnomusicological sound archives \cite{telemetaCREM}. It focuses on the enhance and collaborative user-experience in accessing the audio items and associated metadata and on the possibility for the expert user to further enrich those metadata. Another goal of this demonstration is to present the integrated audio analysis tools described in Section~\ref{sec:Timeside}. -\vspace{-0.2cm} -\subsubsection*{Acknowledgments.} +\vspace{-0.3cm} +\section*{Acknowledgments} \vspace{-0.2cm} The authors would like to thank all the people that have been involved in \emph{Telemeta} specification and development or have provide appreciated thoughts. Since 2007, the project has been also partially funded thanks to the french National Center on Scientific Research (CNRS), the french ministry of culture and communication, the TGE Adonis consortium and the french Research Center on Ethnomusicology CREM. - +\vspace{-0.3cm} \bibliographystyle{splncs03} \bibliography{cmmr_2013} -- 2.39.5