Report on the Panels and Workshops of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) Evaluation Frameworks Project J. Stephen Downie Graduate School ofLibrary and Information Science University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign 'downie uiuc.edu Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) are two interrelated, multidisciplinary research areas with a growing community of involved parties . MIR/MDL research brings together computer scientists, audio engineers, librarians, musicologists, educators and business executives in a common effort to provide robust mechanisms for organizing, storing and accessing the world's everincreasing volume ofmusic. Newcomers to the world ofMIR/MDL are invited to read Downie [8], Futrelle and Downie [10], and Byrd and Crawford [3] for overviews ofissues currently being examined by MIR/MDL researchers. The MIR/MDL community has recognized for several years now that it needs a more formal set of evaluation tools with which to scientifically compare and contrast the techniques its researchers have been developing. In the Summer of2002, this author was able to secure funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to begin exploratory work on the development ofevaluation standards for the MIR/MDL community. The formal name of the Mellon-funded project was "Establishing Music Information Retrieval and Music Digital Library
/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/report-on-the-panels-and-workshops-of-the-music-information-retrieval-y96htVIznd