With apologies for cross-posting:

I know that this message sounds rather techinical, but the first link is to a Stephen Downie paper which in part outlines the difficulties of music library queries. There are some figures and ideas which could be useful for an analysis of services. Just in case anyone is feeling so encumbered just now (Surely not, Ed.)
Pam

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Sent: 06 November 2004 18:35
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Subject: Music IR: Two new mailing lists


Hi gang:

As part of the "International Music Information Retrieval Systems
Evaluation Laboratory" (IMIRSEL) project, I have just set up two new
email lists to help facilitate communications among those involved in
establishing a TREC-like evaluation programme for Music Information
Retrieval and Music Digital Library researchers. Background information
on the IMIRSEL project can be found at:

"Toward the scientific evaluation of music information retrieval
systems" http://ismir2003.ismir.net/papers/Downie.PDF


LIST #1: M2K -- [log in to unmask]

This mail list is designed to facilitate communications among those
using and contributing to the M2K (Music to Knowledge) subset of the D2K
(Data to Knowledge) framework and toolkit. Information about D2K can be
found at:

http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/downloads/d2k

Subscription information is available at:

https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mirmodules

"M2K", is the newly minted moniker for the set of MIR-specific D2K
modules that are being developed jointly by the UIUC IMIRSEL project and
the MIR community at large. M2K is being built to facilitate the
efficient prototyping and evaluation of experimental MIR techniques and
will play a pivotal role in future TREC-like MIR Evaluation eXchanges
(MIREX). More about MIREX in a below.

Information about the role M2K/D2K will play in the evaluation programme
can be found at:

"The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation
Laboratory: Governance, Access and Security"
http://tinyurl.com/4tfrf

Note: The M2K modules will be released shortly. Email me personally at
[log in to unmask] if you are interested being notified of the official
release details outside of the M2K list (i.e., you want to explore M2K
but do not want to subscribe to the M2K list). The M2K modules are being
designed to help with many different MIR/MDL tasks. Examples of some of
the tools/functionalities that we want to build into M2K can be found at:

http://music-ir.org/evaluation/tools.html

LIST #2: MIREX -- [log in to unmask]

This list is designed to facilitate communications among those involved
in planning, executing and participating in MIREX 2005. "MIREX" (Music
Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange)* is the newly minted moniker
for the TREC-like evaluation programme we as a MIR/MDL research
community are setting up. This builds upon and expands the initial work
recently done at the "Audio Description Contest" which took place during
the 5th ISMIR Conference in Barcelona, Spain, October 10-14 2004
(http://ismir2004.ismir.net/ISMIR_Contest.html)

If you are interested in MIR/MDL system evaluation issues and/or have
had experience in other formal system evaluation endeavours (e.g., TREC,
etc.) I would warmly welcome your participation.


Subscription information is available at:

https://mail.isrl.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/evalfest

*Sue Manus of the Library of Congress is to be creditted with coming up
with the spiffiest sounding acronym. Thanks, Sue.

Cheers and thank you.

J. Stephen Downie


The IMIRSEL project is being supported by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
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    "Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037


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