The Music Instrument ontology module represents musical instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties.
🔗 Ontology URI: https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/instrument/
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 [1], 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, such as [2]; (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 [3].
- Which is the physical realization of an instrument?
- Which are the parts of an instrument?
- Who invented an instrument?
- When was an instrument invented?
- Where was an instrument realization built?
- When was an instrument realization built?
- Who built an instrument realization?
- Which is the current location of an instrument realization?
- Which are the locations of an instrument realization during its life cycle?
- Which is the physical realization of an instrument?
PREFIX inst: <https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/instrument/>
PREFIX core: <https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/core/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?instrument ?instrumentRealization
WHERE { ?instrument core:isRealizedBy ?instrumentRealization .
}
- Who invented an instrument?
PREFIX inst: <https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/instrument/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?instrument ?builder
WHERE { ?instrument mi:wasInventedBy ?builder .
}
Considering that this module imports other modules of the network and the ArCo ontology, relevant statistics are:
- number of classes: 161
- number of object properties: 209
- number of datatype properties: 41
- number of logical axioms: 876
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[1] Kolozali, S., Barthet, M., Fazekas, G., Sandler, M.B.: Knowledge representation issues in musical instrument ontology design. In: ISMIR. pp. 465–470 (2011)
[2] Lisena, P., Todorov, K., Cecconi, C., Leresche, F., Canno, I., Puyrenier, F., Voisin, M., Le Meur, T., Troncy, R.: Controlled vocabularies for music metadata. In: IS- MIR: International Society for Music Information Retrieval (2018)
[3] Zanoni, M., Setragno, F., Sarti, A., et al.: The violin ontology. In: Proc. of the 9th Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM14). Citeseer (2014)