The Sound Archives and

Musical Instruments Collections

Project

Giorgio Bevilacqua
giorgio.bevilacqua@synapta.it

MIMO Annual Meeting 2018

Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels - 2018/10/10
Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro (Riva presso Chieri - Torino)
Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro (Riva presso Chieri - Torino)
● Collection of 1k musical instruments and sound devices

Sound Archives and Musical Instruments Collections

Enhance the MPS collection making an innovative use of the technologies

1. High resolution imaging (analytical photogrammetry + 3D modelling)

2. Open and interoperable cataloguing system

● Reuse the data and the

controlled vocabularies open source
● Technical and semantic Collaborative platforms
interoperability linked open data
Data model integration
● Febo Guizzi’s set of rules (250 textual cataloguing records)
● Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s set of rules - (ICCD SM 4.00)
● MIMO (Musical Instrument Museums Online) data model

Content Management System (open source)

● Collective Access
Controlled vocabularies: a case use
● Hornbostel-Sachs classification
○ 4 needs
■ Implementation in Collective Access
■ Public accessibility and reuse of the terms
■ Ability to manually extend the vocabulary
■ Manage different versions of the classification

○ Solution: the HS goes to Wikidata!

■ plugin that provides the cataloguer with the ability to connect
to the knowledge graph of Wikidata, directly from the
Collective Access back end
Wikidata
● Project by the Wikimedia Foundation that aims at creating a free and
collaborative knowledge base supporting all others Wikimedia projects
● Dynamic approach (50M of entities)
● Hub/Core of the Linked Open Data cloud

How to access Wikidata?

● Graphic User Interface: manual edit/create operations
● APIs: software development (BOTs) for automatic operations
● SPARQL endpoint: the data are exposed as Linked Open Data!

Benefits
● Manual edit/create (e.g. create new HS classes)
● Changes in Wikidata are immediately available for data entry
● The classification is accessible through a public LOD platform
● Knowledge graph: manage different HS versions (Guizzi + MIMO)
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54819544
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19589361
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18672568
https://synapta.it/progetti/museo-del-paesaggio-sonoro
https://synapta.it/progetti/progetto-linked-open-data-cobis/
How many CoBiS’ authors were members of scientific academies?
From 1500 to 1900
From 1900 to today
Where did the CoBiS’ authors study?
Where did the CoBiS’ authors study?
Where did the CoBiS’ authors study?
Where did the CoBiS’ authors study?
 Sound Archives and
Musical Instrument Collections
Project

giorgio.bevilacqua@synapta.it
@giorgiobevi

https://synapta.it
http://museopaesaggiosonoro.org/