The Royal Academy of Music is deploying a new
information management system to handle its massive online musical
archive.
The academy has gone to NetworkedPlanet for its
TMCore information management platform to
support its RAMline multi-dimensional music index.
The new platform will provide an intelligent navigation system
for what has the potential to become the largest and most
comprehensive online music resource on the internet; linking
profiles, discographies, performances and musical compositions of
any artist or genre.
The TMCore topic map engine will make it easy for users -
initially academics and academy students, and in the future, music
enthusiasts worldwide - to locate and browse over 100,000
individual in-house and external resources, such as sound clips,
images, websites and details of live performances.
Among the in-house resources that will be drawn together to form
the site will be the Academy's existing
music libraries,
collections, and teaching materials, as well
as new content created by its students as part of their research
assignments.
External resources such as online dictionaries and record
company databases will also be integrated into the system. As each
new resource is added, the system attaches topic, theme and
relationship metadata to each one, enabling it to be categorised as
part of a larger grid of files - all connected semantically.
Antony Pitts, senior lecturer in creative technology at the
Royal Academy of Music, said, "The RAMline project is hugely
ambitious - it aims to bring together all of the Academy's internal
and external resources, and will offer a completely new way of
looking at music history.”
“It has the potential to become the largest and most
comprehensive online music resource on the internet, which will
serve as a learning and research tool for our students and, in the
future, a knowledge portal for the public. Using topic maps allows
us to create, locate and access each resource rapidly and
easily."
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