Projects

Selected projects and tradeshows

MetaStoRe: EU-project that stands for Metadata Storage and Retrieval and it is an ENABLE project. Together with Fraunhofer IDMT, the goal was to build a shared, extensible database for low-level audio-visual features according to the MPEG-7 standard.
DISMARC: EU-project that stands for Discovering Music Archives and that addressed the problem of extensive searches through music archives.
China Music Exibition, Shanghai 2004 “Use of Music Technology in education”
ISME (International Society of Music Education) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2006 ”Internet based music education.”
WOMEX Sevilla, Spain 2007: GME presented Music Delta at the World Music Exhibition (WOMEX)
ISME: Bologna, Italy 2008: “Internet based music learning environment.”
Bett 2009, London UK: “GME presented Music Delta”
Scottish Education Festival 2009, Glasgow, UK: “GME presented Music Delta”
NECC 2009, National Educational Computing Conference, Washington DC, USA: “GME presented Music Delta”

Grieg Music Education part of DISMARC consortium

What happens to that live concert you just heard on the radio? Or that specially commissioned broadcast from a visiting musical legend? It all gets archived.

Music archives, whether owned by broadcasters, museums, institutions or private collections, are home to a treasure trove. And the contents are not only music – videos, books, documents, manuscripts and music instruments are all part of Europe’s cultural heritage.

Due to lack of interoperability between data catalogues, this material often lies hidden from the outside world. Searching in European archives by theme requires separate visits to each archive, whether via your mouse or your feet. DISMARC, a two-year EU-funded project initiated in September 2006, addressed the problem.

Grieg Music Education participated in developing DISMARC trough the original DISMARC consortium. The consortium was drawn from major European broadcasters (RBB, YLE), universities (SOAS, HMTH) and archives (EMEM, ISPAN, SVA). They were supported in preparing DISMARC by cultural knowledge disseminators (WOMEX), technology engineers (AIT) and educators (GME).

DISMARC reveals large amounts of under-exposed European cultural, scientific and scholarly music audio. Content providers – archives, broadcasters, museums, universities, research institutes, private collectors – can now open up their collections to the wider world. The DISMARC content collection is drawn from invaluable, European-owned, culturally-significant, original music audio and music-related material from the early 20th century until today.

More content is being contributed by archives as DISMARC expands. Audio is searchable, discoverable and, where the content owner provides access to audio, listenable.

DISMARC offers a solution to a problem inherited from an earlier, analogue age. Thematic searching in Europe’s catalogues needs separate ‘visits’ to each archive. Archives have created data cataloguing systems which are not interoperable, broadcasters have never addressed the issue. DISMARC collects metadata from participating archives, maps it to a DISMARC protocol and stores it securely. By browsing this store, users are able to search all participating archives simultaneously.

The users are archives, broadcasters, content aggregators, download platforms, educational publishers, general public, media, performing artists, record companies, researchers, students, schoolchildren and more.

Grieg Music Education part of EU-project MetaStoRe

Together with the inventers of the MP3 format, the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, GME develops several teaching modules.

Fraunhofer IDMT and the Norwegian partners Artspages and Grieg Music Education will create an application with innovative content-based search tools containing recommendation mechanisms for end users. Therefore, the three partners merge their expertise in the field of metadata research (Fraunhofer IDMT), data mining and content providing (Artspages) as well as web-based E-learning applications (Grieg Music Education).

Within the environment of a music archive and supported by interactive modules the end-user will be enabled to search and retrieve specific multimedia content. On a second level, the developed application will also be offered to international search engines to implement MetaStoRe as an additional service.

In a further step, new E-learning applications for students in the field of music will be developed. Students will get the opportunity to create a musical path between two songs, find new songs with similarities regarding music genre, tempo retrieval, and harmonic structure and to study evolution of popular music.

The database represents a comprehensive basis for various new applications and services to advance music sales and multimedia content on a worldwide scale.

Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau conducts applied research in the field of digital media and works on leading projects and topics in the field of audio visual applications. More than 50 employees and 70 students are working on several scientific projects and in different fields of research at the Fraunhofer IDMT, founded in 2004.