EDM profile for Sounds

Collection of use cases

The Task Force on EDM profile for Sounds aims at creating an EDM profile for describing sounds materials. The first step in the process is the collection of use cases. These cases will allow the Task Force to scope its activities and define clear requirements that will form the basis of the EDM profile for Sounds.

The current fields for the use case templates are:

1) Title of the use case(s)

BnF - Europeana Sounds : patrimoine sonore européen (musiques, bruits, langues)

2) Owner's case name and name of the represented institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France (Use cases submitted by Anila Angjeli)

Use case(s):

3) Provide a general description of your use case(s). You can also add to your use case(s) images, diagrams if needed.

A use should contain information on:

-what is the type of sound objects you provide Europeana (vinyle, recording, music sheet….) : Wax cylinders, Shellac, acetate, vinyl, tape, mp3 and cd recordings. The sound files are accessible via the online BnF digital library Gallica. -Are these objects composed of different elements? If yes, what is the type of the relationship between an object and its different components or between the components themselves? Each object consists of one or several physical items, all described in one single bibliographic record. The bibliographic records may or may not be structured hierarchically. In case of hierarchically structured records there is a general description of the object, followed by the individual description of each of the component parts. Note that the hierarchical construction of the bibliographic record corresponds principally to the intellectual content recorded (FRBR: expressions of works). This hierarchy may or may not correspond to the physical parts (sides and/or tracks of a disc, several discs). Example A : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k127552m 1 expression of work recorded on 4 discs (8 physical sides): no component part detailed in the bibliographic record. Example B : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1273910 2 expressions of works recorded on 1 disc (each expression on 1 side): 2 titles in the bibliographic record. Example C : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8803685n/f1 6 expressions of works (each containing 3 or 4 parts) recorded on 1 disc (2 sides each with 10 tracks). In the bibliographical record, there is no precision which title is recorded on which track. Example D : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1287082 1 expression of work on 1 single-sided disc It is to be noted that the distinction of contained titles (Expressions of works) is clearly made in the MARC or EAD formatted source records in the BnF catalogues. Unfortunately the records that the BnF will provide to ESounds project will be in DC (due to rights issues) where all hierarchical levels are flattened (usually: the first 3 titles in one dc:title and other titles in one dc:description). In addition, some objects may be part of a larger collection. The relation to a larger collection is provided through the title of that larger collection and through the ark id of the bibliographic record of the collection (in dc:relation). The bibliographic record for the collection itself is not provided to Europeana Sounds. -Do the objects have digital representations? And if yes, of what type (same recording in different formats, video, images…)? Discs : 1 analogic object will have 1 digital item for each physical side or track Example A : Side 1 : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1281565/f1 Side 2 : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1281565/f2 Example B : Side 1 : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8803685n/f1 (10 tracks) To be noted: Tapes and CD recordings: 1 digital object – it is planned that some tapes and mp3 may have chapter marks in upcoming months. All recordings (except Deleuze and Fred Deux collections and mp3 recordings) come with accompanying photograph(s) of the object itself, some come with related papers.

Data sample illustrating the use case

4) Each use case should be illustrated by (a) data sample(s).

Upload your data sample(s) at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4N3jJ2PToabWU1scDVFZGVKVEU&usp=sharing and indicate the name of the file(s) in this questionnaire for reference.

Sample in addition to the above mentioned records : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1281565.r=ferdinand+brunot.langFR http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k129027g http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k128531t (with subjects) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1296903.r=louis+weill.langFR http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8803685n.r=rameau.langFR http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k127520t.r=rameau.langFR http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k128289n.r=Sur+Spinoza+%3A+ann%C3%A9e+universitaire+1980-1981.langFR (Deleuze)

5) What metadata format is used in the samples(s)?

Dublin Core.

6) Describe how you use this metadata format to support the described use case(s) (can include details on specific metadata elements, data quality aspects…)

BnF metadata will be exported to Europeana Sounds in Dublin Core format (descriptive metadata of the digital representations) List of specific metadata elements : dc:identifier (contains matrix numbers, release/catalogue numbers, each in a separate dc:identifier ) in addition to the dc:identifier for the digital representation dc:format (carrier) dc:type (type of document = sound recording with language attribute) dc:description (contained titles, see above ; place and date of recording ; uniform titles of the musical contained works…) dc:date (date of publication of the original object) dc:creator/contributor (the role is added to the name, in French. Example : XXX. Compositeur) dc:subject (see below) dc:relation (contains ark-id of the MARC-bibliographical record in the BnF Catalogue ; contains also link to the larger collection record : ark + title of the collection, see above)

Vocabularies

7) Are you using specific vocabularies(e.g. thesauri) to describe information such as subjects, genres in your metadata?

If not go to question 11.

Terms issued from a range of specialized controlled vocabularies, maintained as flat lists (“Typologies audiovisuelles”) are likely to appear in the records. Those vocabularies are only in French. The terms of each of the lists are expressed in codes (alpha or digit codes). For public display and in DC codes are provided as labels (see examples below for each of the lists) Lists of Audiovisual Typologies (available from the BnF web site) : Broad domain : Audiovisual- general domain (three letter code for a thematic indexing of audiovisual materials) http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-general.pdf Two lists for Genres: The first defines a broad genre, the second a specific one http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-genre-gen.pdf e.g: “chanson” http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-precis.pdf e.g.: “chanson anglophone”) Other typologies : Diffusion mode http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-circuit.pdf (e.g: radio broadcast) Original diffusion mode: http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-circ-orig.pdf (e.g: document d’origine : diffusion à la télévision) Intended audience : http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-public.pdf e.g.: publicité Form of the document: http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio_forme_document.pdf e.g.: entretien Circumstances of the recording http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-fixation.pdf e.g.:enregistrement événement/spectacle Affiliation to a pre-existing work : http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-filiation.pdf e.g.: adaptation Form of the pre-existing work : http://www.bnf.fr/documents/intermarc_ref_audio-form-preex.pdf e.g.: oeuvre d’origine: music hall RAMEAU The encyclopaedic subject headings French vocabulary, a national tool for all libraries. RAMEAU is managed centrally by the BnF on behalf of all the partners that are members of RAMEAU network. It is enriched collaboratively by all the partners. RAMEAU is aligned to LCSH and is one of the vocabularies that are part of the MACS project. Note that RAMEAU is very rich in terms related to musical instruments. Within the framework of a joint research project in France, CREM and the BnF are collaborating on a very fine representation of musical instruments domain in RAMEAU. Equivalences are also established with international controlled vocabularies and classifications such as G.Durnon and Sachs-Hornbostel. An alignment with MIMO is also underway. Colleagues from CREM have noticed that RAMEAU is far richer in this domain than DISMARC and MIMO. While in the BnF catalogues RAMEAU subject headings are linked dynamically (through the authority record id) to the bibliographic records (and to the records of the finding aids in EAD), in DC they appear as flat strings under dc:subject (see above section on metadata format), with each subject heading in a separate dc:subject. It is to be noted that RAMEAU is available in SKOS. The totality of the vocabulary in SKOS can be downloaded from the page http://data.bnf.fr/semanticweb Sujets : récupérer la liste des sujets (RAMEAU) et les liens vers les documents associés. dump rdf sujets RAMEAU (rdf/xml) dump rdf sujets RAMEAU (n3) dump rdf sujets RAMEAU (nt) However, as all to BnF data the EtaLab licence (CC-BY) applies to RAMEAU as well.

8) If yes, how are you using them? In which metadata fields?

dc:subject Note that in the source records each of the vocabularies has its own field (a separate code)

9) What is the language coverage of these thesauri/vocabularies?

French Note that RAMEAU is aligned with LCSH ( MACS project)

10) How are the thesauri/vocabularies represented (e.g. a database, an XML file, SKOS, etc.)? If possible provide an example of (a part) of the thesauri/vocabularies you use (e.g. a fragment of XML, etc.).

Copy and paste an example in the questionnaire or upload your vocabulary sample at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4N3jJ2PToabWU1scDVFZGVKVEU&usp=sharing and indicate the name of the file(s).

For the vocabularies “Typologies audiovisuelles” see above (lists available on the BnF website) See also above for RAMEAU.

Enrichment

11) If you are not using thesauri/vocabularies, would you like to see your metadata enriched with references to thesauri/vocabularies?

While we do use our own vocabularies, it would be beneficial to see our records enriched with terms from other international vocabularies.

12) Which metadata fields would you like to see enriched?