Hello,
I'm setting up a DSpace repository for our archive of Indian Classical Music.
I'm currently working on our metadata schema and I have some questions and
difficulties I need help with.
One of my basic requirements is that each song be treated as an item in DSpace.
This is because a 'song' (a composition) is the basic tangible unit in this
music - compositions are taught, studied, written down, exchanged, and
performed. Invariably, a single traditional composition will have a number of
different versions, performed by a number of artists. Students of music,
therefore, will want to search for a traditional composition and will expect to
find a number of versions of it.
In this situation, I need to know how to represent albums, or recordings of
live concerts, both of which contain a number of compositions. From my research
(I'm no metadata expert), this is what I've come up with:
I create a separate item in DSpace for each song in the album
I also create an item for the album
In the album-item, I use the dc.relation.haspart property to enter URIs of each
song-item
In each song-item, I use the dc.relation.ispartof property to enter the URI of
the album to which the song belongs
Does this sound right?
We also have handwritten musical scores (notation) of many compositions. Is it
correct to use the dc.relation.isformatof property to indicate a relationship
between an recorded composition (audio file) and its musical notation (scanned
image)? I'd have to use the dc.relation.isformatof property on both items right?
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Indian music is based on melodic frameworks called 'raagas'. Any composition in
Indian Classical music is derived from one of the hundreds of raagas. Therefore
the raaga is an important characteristic of any composition. Would it be
appropriate to indicate this using a new qualifier for the dc.subject property?
As in dc.subject.raaga?
Similarly the various rhythms to which the compositions are sung are called
taalas. Consequently, I should use dc.subject.tala, correct? Also in this case,
I don't see myself using dc.subject without any qualifiers at all. Is that
appropriate?
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The compositions are classified into a number of sub-genres named 'khayal',
'thumri', 'bhajan' and so on. Which would be more appropriate here:
dc.coverage.genre or dc.subject.genre? Often, there are also sub-genres, so
dc.coverage.subgenre?
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And one of my biggest problems is: Any performance will have a number of
artists performing together - a singer, supporting vocalists, instrumentalists,
percussionists etc. I can list these using dc.contributor with marcrel
qualifiers, such as dc.contributor.singer, dc.contributor.instrumentalist etc.
But how do I indicate each contributor's role? How do I show which of the
contributors is the singer, which is the percussionist and so on?
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For the languages of the compositions, most are in Dialects of the Hindi
language. There is a standard language code for Hindi, but there are no codes
for dialects of hindi. How should I represent these dialects? Or should I stick
to just showing 'Hindi' as the language of the composition?
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I know that's a lot of questions to ask in one go....any responses will be
greatly appreciated.
For anyone who might be interested in finding out more about Indian Classical
Music and our archive, please take a look at the attached file.
Thanks so very much in advance!
Srijan Deshpande
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