The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage

Jacopo de Berardinis; Valentina Anita Carriero; Nitisha Jain; Nicolas Lazzari; Albert Merono Penuela; Andrea Poltronieri; Valentina Presutti

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_17

The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage

Jacopo de Berardinis^*, Valentina Anita Carriero, Nitisha Jain, Nicolas Lazzari, Albert Merono Penuela, Andrea Poltronieri, Valentina Presutti

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Informatics

University of Bologna

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In the music domain, several ontologies have been proposed to annotate musical data, in both symbolic and audio form, and generate semantically rich Music Knowledge Graphs. However, current models lack interoperability and are insufficient for representing music history and the cultural heritage context in which it was generated; risking the propagation of recency and cultural biases to downstream applications. In this article, we propose the Polifonia Ontology Network (PON) for music cultural heritage, centred around four modules: Music Meta (metadata), Representation (content), Source (provenance) and Instrument (cultural objects). We design PON with a strong accent on cultural stakeholder requirements and competency questions (CQs), contributing an NLP-based toolkit to support knowledge engineers in generating, validating, and analysing them; and a novel, high-quality CQ dataset produced as a result. We show current and future use of these resources by internal project pilots, early adopters in the music industry, and opportunities for the Semantic Web and Music Information Retrieval communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023 - 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings
Editors	Terry R. Payne, Valentina Presutti, Guilin Qi, María Poveda-Villalón, Giorgos Stoilos, Laura Hollink, Zoi Kaoudi, Gong Cheng, Juanzi Li
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Pages	302-322
Number of pages	21
Volume	14266
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-47243-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-47242-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_17
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2023

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14266 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Knowledge Engineering
Cultural Heritage
Ontology

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de Berardinis, J., Carriero, V. A., Jain, N., Lazzari, N., Merono Penuela, A., Poltronieri, A., & Presutti, V. (2023). The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage. In T. R. Payne, V. Presutti, G. Qi, M. Poveda-Villalón, G. Stoilos, L. Hollink, Z. Kaoudi, G. Cheng, & J. Li (Eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023 - 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings (Vol. 14266, pp. 302-322). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14266 LNCS). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47243-5_17

de Berardinis, Jacopo ; Carriero, Valentina Anita ; Jain, Nitisha et al. / The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023 - 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings. editor / Terry R. Payne ; Valentina Presutti ; Guilin Qi ; María Poveda-Villalón ; Giorgos Stoilos ; Laura Hollink ; Zoi Kaoudi ; Gong Cheng ; Juanzi Li. Vol. 14266 Springer, Cham, 2023. pp. 302-322 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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The Polifonia Ontology Network: Building a Semantic Backbone for Musical Heritage. / de Berardinis, Jacopo; Carriero, Valentina Anita; Jain, Nitisha et al.
The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023 - 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings. ed. / Terry R. Payne; Valentina Presutti; Guilin Qi; María Poveda-Villalón; Giorgos Stoilos; Laura Hollink; Zoi Kaoudi; Gong Cheng; Juanzi Li. Vol. 14266 Springer, Cham, 2023. p. 302-322 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14266 LNCS).

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