Presented as part of "Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities" (#RODH2012) Oct 23-25, 2012, Ireland. More info: www.dri.ie/programme

1. Forethoughts (or Four Provocations)
on Digital Scholarship:
SALAMI, Semantic Media, Social Machines,
and Social Objects for People and Machines
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
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, like COMA
(Contemporary Music for Amateurs), or the Spectrum
books of the ABRSM.”
David Owen Norris, Pianist, Composer and Professor of Musical
Performance, Southampton University
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/special/projects/whats-the-score/research-context

6. A Big Picture
e-infrastructure
More machines
Big Data The Future?
Big Compute
Conventional Social
online
Computation Networking R&D
More people

7. Some Social Machines

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

11. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
www.scilogs.com/eresearch
@dder