Title: Ionian music archive: application of digitisation, management, protection and dissemination technologies for musical cultural heritage

Authors: Dimitrios Koukopoulos; Dimitrios Tsolis; Georgios P. Heliades

Addresses: Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece ' Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Patras, Agrinio, Greece ' Department.of Sound and Musical Instruments Technology, Technological Institution of Ionian Islands, Kefalonia, Greece

Abstract: This paper presents the design and implementation of a web-based application aiming at the digitisation, management and dissemination of musical cultural heritage. The architecture of the application is modular consisting of a digitisation layer that provides all the necessary digitisation services to the expert and an information system layer that supports multimedia management, protection through watermarking and dissemination services along with system administration services. The architecture is expandable due to the dynamic nature of a musical heritage archive. The application is safeguarding folklore music of Greek Ionian islands and provides services and tools to the internet user as well as the curator of the musical archive.

Keywords: musical heritage; digitisation; multimedia databases; web tools; web services; digital watermarking; Ionian islands; music archives; multimedia management; multimedia protection; dissemination services; cultural heritage; modular architecture; multimedia security; folklore; folk music; Greece.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2016.075978

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 2016 Vol.5 No.1, pp.3 - 18

Received: 06 Jan 2015
Accepted: 16 Oct 2015
Published online: 20 Apr 2016 *

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