The HARMOS Project aims to develop new products and services for exploiting multimedia content in music heritage

The HARMOS Project aims to develop new products and services for exploiting multimedia content in music heritage and popular music based on applying state-of-art technologies in the areas of: audio processing and recognition for automatic audio-visual segmentation, tagging, segmenting, storing, retrieving and securing digital multimedia data.

Definition of common content descriptors and ontologies.Establishment of common data processing methodology.Definition of technical and functional specification for: automatic segmentation tool for audiovisual content, collaborative annotation system, and media management modules (management of IPR, hybrid delivery system).

Processing the content for the final pan-European digital data collection.Developing/customising the tool to (a) enable faster tailoring of the data content (automatic audio segmentation tool and telematic annotation system); (b) enable to offer final services to exploit this eContent (module for management of IPR, hybrid delivery system).Multilingual aspects: customised user interface, multilingual data processing/tagging and searching.Sytem integration of precessed content and developed/customised tools, to be able to offer the final services.

Evaluation of protoptypes/demonstrators to ensure quality, support iterative development and to feed into the explitation plan.

will be carried out throughout all the above mentioned phases of the project, to raise awareness of the HARMOS project and to prepare to implement the developed services at the end of the project.

This report summarizes the different tasks involved in WP3, tryin to point out the different issues involved in all of them, to reach the HARMOS final collection of 700 hours with the teachings of the grat maestros. The first step to reach the HARMOS collection was defining the production plan to be developed by each institution. To identify the multimedia contents which would be included in the HARMOS collection, it was very important to take into account the purpose of the project: to disseminate and preserve the teachings of the great maestros. Due to the fact that some of the contents partner did not have the experience and technical equipment required for digital captures, this was mainly outsourced. This implies very strict quality parameters in order to unify the results of the final collection.

This report describes the final status of the User Interface Tool, previously described in report D4.2: User Interface Development. HARMOS provide an user interface for end users (students). This interface gives access to the HARMOS collection of digital content. The HARMOS collection provides access to master class videos catalogued according to pedagogical musical concepts. The student can access these videos through a rich set of searching criteria. Users have the option of adding annotations to selected videos. The students can also read of post messages from forums related to the composers, composition and instruments associated to the videos. After the evaluation of the first prototype, several improvements were suggested and have been implemented in this final version.

This report describes the final status of the Media Management Tool, previously described in report D4.3: Media Management Modules development. This document focuses on explaining technical issues related to the Media Management Tool, the Collaborative Annotation System and the Hybrid System. The rest of the document gives an overview of the relationships of this module with other modules, describes the Digital Management Rights Tool, which provides a tool for managing digital rights in HARMOS, and describes the Analyst Asssitance facility that has been incorporated in the tool, integration the Automatic Segmentation Tool.

This report covers the most important issues related to the final version of the Audio Segmentation Tool: description of the improvements on the algorithm for automatic segmentation of audio recordings, description and results of the technical evaluation procedure of the segmentation tool, and detail about the final integration of the tool within the HARMOS prototype. The document describes the technical evaluation procedure for the segmentation tool, as well as the results of evaluation presentation of the tool within an annotated database of audio recordings. The report finally gives all necessary details related to the integration of the Audio Segmentation Tool within the HTCMedia prototype, and the modifications carried out from the first integration proposal.