1. Forethoughts (or Four Provocations)
on Digital Scholarship…
David De Roure

2. Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information
23,000 hours of Digital Music
recorded music
Collections Music Information
Retrieval Community
Student-sourced Community
http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/salami
ground truth Software
Supercomputer
Linked Data
Repositories

3. It’s web-like!
“Ground Truth”
Community
Digital Audio
“Signal”
Structural
Analysis

4. Content Navigation throughout
the Content Life-Cycle
• Annotation should occur within
the production process
• Integrating knowledge of the
production workflow
• Managing and exposing this
metadata using modern semantic
web and linked data technology
• Empowering human producers
and consumers
semanticmedia.org.uk

5. "The most important thing for a
thriving musical world is a bedrock
of enthusiastic amateur music-
making. The Bodleian Library's
new project shines a light on a
time when this fact was thoroughly
understood, and when musicians
of quite modest technical
accomplishment could encompass
something of the current musical
styles. A knowledge of day-to-day
playing for pleasure in Victorian
times will reinforce twenty-first-
century initiatives in public
engagement...”
David Owen Norris
Professor of Musical Performance
University of Southampton
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/special/projects/whats-the-score/research-context

6. A Big Picture
cyber/e-infrastructure
More machines
Big Data The Future?
Big Compute
Conventional Social
online
Computation Networking research
More people

7. Some Social Machines

8. Some Social Objects

9. Co-Evolution of Research Objects
Packs
ORE
OAI
Workflows
Research Objects
W3C PROV
Computational
Research Objects

10. Notifications and automatic re-runs
Executable theses
Autonomic
Curation
New research?
and repair
Computational Research Objects
Machines are users too

11. http://ismir2012.ismir.net/

12. Discussion points
1. SALAMI
– Human vs computer, and Web vs repository
– What is in the digital library?
2. Semantic Media
– End-to-End semantics, from production to delivery to
cumulative value through use
3. Social Machines
– Sociotechnical entities as first class citizens
– Theory and practice, design and construction
4. Social/Semantic/Computational Objects
– New digital artefacts (in the digital library?)
– Machines are users too: computer assistance, not
automation/Taylorisation

13. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
digitalhumanities.ox.ac.uk
www.scilogs.com/eresearch
@dder
Thanks to Stephen Downie, Ichinaro Fujinaga, Mark Sandler,
Sarah Thomas, Nigel Shadbolt, Carole Goble, Kevin Page

14. • SALAMI
http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/salami Links
• Semantic Media
http://semanticmedia.org.uk/
• What’s the Score?
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/special/projects/whats-the-score
• myExperiment project wiki
http://wiki.myexperiment.org/
• Workflow Forever project (Wf4Ever)
http://www.wf4ever-project.org/
• Theory and Practice of Social Machines (SOCIAM)
http://sociam.org/
• Future of Research Communication (FORCE11)
http://force11.org/
• Digital Humanities at Oxford (DH@OX)
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/

15. • D. De Roure, C. Goble and R. Stevens. The Design and Realisation of the myExperiment
Virtual Research Environment for Social Sharing of Workflows Future Generation
Computer Systems 25, pp. 561-567.
• S. Bechhofer, I. Buchan, D De Roure et al. Why linked data is not enough for scientists,
Future Generation Computer Systems
• D. De Roure, David and C. Goble, Anchors in Shifting Sand: the Primacy of Method in
the Web of Data. WebSci10, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC, US.
• D. De Roure, S. Bechhofer, C. Goble and D. Newman, Scientific Social Objects, 1st
International Workshop on Social Object Networks (SocialObjects 2011).
• De Roure D, Page KR, Fields B, Crawford T, Downie JS, Fujinaga I: An e-Research
approach to Web-scale music analysis. Phil. Trans. A Math Phys Eng Sci; 2011 Aug
28;369(1949):3300-17
• D. De Roure, K. Belhajjame, P. Missier, P. et al Towards the preservation of scientific
workflows. 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2011).
• Carole A. Goble, David De Roure and Sean Bechhofer Accelerating scientists’ knowledge
turns. Will be available at www.springerlink.com
• Khalid Belhajjame, Oscar Corcho, Daniel Garijo et al Workflow-Centric Research Objects:
First Class Citizens in Scholarly Discourse, SePublica2012 at ESWC2012, Greece, May
2012
• Kevin R. Page, Ben Fields, David De Roure et al Reuse, Remix, Repeat: The Workflows of
MIR, 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012)
Porto, Portugal, October 8th-12th, 2012