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* Downloading content (subject to DRM restrictions)
 
* Downloading content (subject to DRM restrictions)
  
MuDoc's initial deployment (portal, brokerage, and repository) will reside on the [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca folkwaysAlive] server, in the [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology] (Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta). When the system is fully tested and stable, other repositories will be able to join the federation.
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MuDoc's initial deployment (portal, brokerage, and repository) will reside on the [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca folkwaysAlive] server, in the [http://www.fwalive.ualberta.ca Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology] (Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta). When the system is fully tested and stable, other repositories will be able to join the federation as well.
  
 
MuDoc was conceived by [mailto:michaelf@ualberta.ca Michael Frishkopf] and designed by Michael Frishkopf and [mailto:dpd@ualberta.ca David Descheneau], with open source brokerage components contributed by [http://www.sun.com Sun Microsystems]. Implementation design, advisory services, and programming was provided by  Sun, [http://www.maketechnologies.com Make Technologies], [http://www.clrstream.com/ Clearstream], and Academic Information and Communication Technologies ([http://www.ualberta.ca/AICT AICT]) at the University of Alberta. Support for this project was generously provided by  Alberta's Ministry of Innovation and Science (now part of the [http://www.advancededucation.gov.ab.ca/ Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology]), Sun Microsystems, and  the [http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/vpresearch/ Office of the VP (Research)], University of Alberta.
 
MuDoc was conceived by [mailto:michaelf@ualberta.ca Michael Frishkopf] and designed by Michael Frishkopf and [mailto:dpd@ualberta.ca David Descheneau], with open source brokerage components contributed by [http://www.sun.com Sun Microsystems]. Implementation design, advisory services, and programming was provided by  Sun, [http://www.maketechnologies.com Make Technologies], [http://www.clrstream.com/ Clearstream], and Academic Information and Communication Technologies ([http://www.ualberta.ca/AICT AICT]) at the University of Alberta. Support for this project was generously provided by  Alberta's Ministry of Innovation and Science (now part of the [http://www.advancededucation.gov.ab.ca/ Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology]), Sun Microsystems, and  the [http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/vpresearch/ Office of the VP (Research)], University of Alberta.

Revision as of 15:50, 23 February 2007

MuDoc (Multimedia/Music Documentation) is a general-purpose digital repository designed to store and disseminate digital objects. MuDoc was designed expressly to accommodate digitized ethnomusicological fieldwork, in order to address problems inherent in traditional archives (preservation, quality assurance, access, dissemination) by offering the following features:

  • Distributed database, via Sun's federated brokerage system, LIMBS (a single portal communicates with multiple repositories via a central broker system). Repositories can be located anywhere on the Internet; users see a single, seamless repository.
  • Web portal user interface, with permanent workspace and messaging system
  • Web submission and peer review of multimedia content (e.g. audio, video, text, notation, image) hierarchically arranged using the standard nested "folder" paradigm.
  • Peer review system (enabling users to request editorial or reviewer roles, and providing a complete peer-review workflow)
  • Permanent storage and backup of accepted submissions
  • Non-hierarchical keyword ontology (supporting peer review and search), structured as a directed acyclic graph of concepts.
  • Web submission and peer review of keywords
  • Tagging of submissions with keywords and metadata
  • Annotation: submitting objects to annotate other objects (including annotations)
  • Linking submissions to existing repository objects, generally
  • Searching by metadata or keyword (including recursive search through the ontology)
  • Browsing search results,
  • Rudimentary DRM (digital rights management), including e-commerce (designed to provide an income stream to artists)
  • Downloading content (subject to DRM restrictions)

MuDoc's initial deployment (portal, brokerage, and repository) will reside on the folkwaysAlive server, in the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (Department of Music, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta). When the system is fully tested and stable, other repositories will be able to join the federation as well.

MuDoc was conceived by Michael Frishkopf and designed by Michael Frishkopf and David Descheneau, with open source brokerage components contributed by Sun Microsystems. Implementation design, advisory services, and programming was provided by Sun, Make Technologies, Clearstream, and Academic Information and Communication Technologies (AICT) at the University of Alberta. Support for this project was generously provided by Alberta's Ministry of Innovation and Science (now part of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology), Sun Microsystems, and the Office of the VP (Research), University of Alberta.