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:

• Distributed database, via federated brokerage (a single portal communicates with multiple repositories via a central broker system
• Web portal interface
• Web submissions of hierarchical multimedia content (e.g. audio, video, text, notation, image, arranged in a "folder" hierarchy)
• 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)
• Tagging of submissions with keywords and metadata
• Annotation: submitting objects to annotate other objects (including annotations)
• Linking submissions to existing repository objects, generally
• Search by keyword or metadata
• Rudimentary DRM (digital rights management), including e-commerce
• Downloading content (subject to DRM restrictions)