Interdisciplinary Research Issues in Music Information Retrieval: ISMIR 2000?2002

Joe Futrelle, J. Stephen Downie
2003 Journal of New Music Research  
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) is an interdisciplinary research area that has grown out of the need to manage burgeoning collections of music in digital form. Its diverse disciplinary communities have yet to articulate a common research agenda or agree on methodological principles and metrics of success. In order for MIR to succeed, researchers need to work with real user communities and develop research resources such as reference music collections, so that the wide variety of techniques
more » ... ng developed in MIR can be meaningfully compared with one another. Out of these efforts, a common MIR practice can emerge. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.
doi:10.1076/jnmr.32.2.121.16740 fatcat:er3gcgidlffq5asufoiqezyz3u