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Ontology |
Music Instrument Ontology |
An ontology to describe instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties. |
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polifonia-project |
ontology/music-instrument.owl |
13/04/2023 |
v1.0 |
10.5281/zenodo.7919970 |
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Copyright (c) 2023 Music Instrument Contributors |
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The Instrument Module describes musical instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties. Given that numerous taxonomies of instruments into groups and families exist (e.g. Hornbostel-Sachs, MIMO, Mu- sicBrainz) and finding common categorisations is an open problem, our module provides an abstraction capable to express arbitrary classifications. This is achieved by leveraging the Information-Realisation and the Collection ODPs. Overall, the module allows to: (i) refer to instruments as entities (an instrumen- tation of a piece for “piano” and “viola”) as well as conceptually (e.g. a viola has 4 strings); (ii) support the integration with different taxonomies and vocabularies; (iii) describe the evolution of instruments in time and space (e.g. a viola as a cultural heritage object being relocated). This provides a foundational level where contributors can “plug” their instrument-specific ontologies.