MuDoc system

MuDoc (Multimedia/Music Documentation) is a general digital repository designed to store and disseminate digitized ethnomusicological fieldwork (though suitable--in principle--for any media content), with the following features:

• Web portal interface
• Distributed database, via federated brokerage (a single portal communicates with multiple repositories via a central broker system
• Online submissions of hierarchical multimedia content (e.g. audio, video, text, score, image)
• Peer review system (enabling users to request editorial or reviewer roles, and providing a complete peer-review workflow)
• Permanent storage of accepted submissions
• Non-hierarchical keyword ontology (supporting peer review and search)
• Tagging of submissions with keywords and metadata
• Annotation: submitting objects to annotate other objects (including annotations)
• Search by keyword or metadata
• Rudimentary digital rights management (including e-commerce)
• Downloading content