Riley, Jenn. "Next-generation Subject Access for Music: Infrastructure Needs." Music Library Association Annual Meeting, February 21, 2008, Newport, RI.

1. Jenn Riley
Indiana University Digital Library Program

2. Topical terms
 Instrumentation (“medium of performance”)
 Form/genre/style
 Geographic
 Temporal
 Cultural groups
 Language
 Names
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3. 
Ethnomusicological Video
for Instruction and Analysis
Digital Archive
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4. 
Controlled Vocabulary
Maintenance Tool
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5. 
Annotation tool
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6. 
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from
Indiana
Faceted Browse
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7. 
IN Harmony: Sheet Music from
Indiana
Item Display
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8. 
Sheet Music Cataloging
Tool
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9. 
Variations Digital
Music Library
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10. 
Variations Cataloging
Tool
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11. 
Some Variations
Vocabularies
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12. Assist with cataloging
 Provide collocation of like resources
 Facilitate browsing
 Expand user queries
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For full integration of controlled vocabularies into
cataloging tools and end-user interfaces
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Faceted vocabularies
Robust syndetic structures
Openly available vocabulary files
Real-time querying of vocabularies via Web Services
All of these are in progress,
but NONE is quite there yet.
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14. Catalogers, managers, and system designers
must work collaboratively
 Remember why controlled subject access is
valuable, but be flexible as to how it is
implemented
 Streamline controlled vocabulary creation process
as much as possible
 Learn about the technologies involved
 Make our vocabularies available openly for
machine access
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15. 
These presentation slides:
<http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/mla2008/
mla2008.ppt>
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Handout:
<http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/presentations/mla2008/
handout.pdf>
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jenlrile@indiana.edu
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