SEKO3 project log - activity notes
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2023-01
- First issuse created in January - By September issue nr. 49 was created.
2023-05
- Note! There are several possibly problematic concepts due to overlapping distribution of the same or similar instruments over several cultural and linguistic regions. Some concepts may need to be split up and some others should be joined to a single concept. These will be brought up as issues where they can be then discussed. See the list at Issue(https://github.com/NatLibFi/SEKO/issues)
2024-11
- created five new issues
- worked on mapping MARC field 048 - SEKO - LCMPT
2025
Week 27
- As of June 2026 the list of instrument names in Swedish is lacking 58 labels. 57 English labels are missing. MIMO may have some, but additional labels are needed.
- After handling all the open issues here whe should have labels in 3 languages with a Wikidata-mapping for all current and some newly added items.
- During the editing some items will be DEPRECATED due to MERGE or other reasons. See the lists of planned deprecations and addtions.
Week 28
- Started adding the rest of the issues for concepts needing actions in the Masterdata table.
- All planned issues on problematic instruments or those without mappings have been created. On 2026-07-05 there are 141 “open” issues and 30 “solved”. The unfinished masterdata backup was uploaded as a CSV file to the repository. Created a description of the columns in the masterata table (masterdata.md) and added a description of the data model in the wiki section.
- The MIMO vocabulary was contacted concerning data download and Finnish labels.
- Sources for labels The list was updated with additional sources and moved to the Seko Wiki (see the link above) - See also the list of printed sources used in the original Seko vocabulary. Lähdeluettelo
- The Finnish Expert Group on Music Metadata MUUSA decisions on SEKO concepts during 2021-01/2026-06 have been copied from their wiki list to here as issues and marked with the label MUUSA.
- Imported the predecessor “Soitinnimien ohjeluettelo” laast version (Oct, 2017) from Web Archive. Will post it in the Wiki. Downloaded also the first online version of 2002 from Web Archive.
Week 29
- Added documentation in the Wiki section about the planned new Data Model of SEKO3, SPARQL searching in Finto (and later Wikidata), list of concepts set for deprecation, plans for properties, added more items to the list of information source resources, etc.
- Improved usability of the repository by creating subdirectories “doc”, “datamodel” and “masterdata”. Moved the datamodel documentation from wiki.
- started documenting SPARQL queries in th Wiki section. E.g. all skos:note field values of in Seko at finto.fi into a table, etc.
- The issues in which the instruments were missing a Swedish prefLabel were labelled
svenskt namn saknas and those missing a mapping to wikidata.
- Wrote a short intermediary status report which was sent to the Muusa group.
- Createad an AI-generated status report of the masterdata-table (with Claude Sonnet 5) - still adusting. Visible in the Wiki section Väliraportti as a PDF. Created also Claude skills for retrieving instrument information from various sources and for instrument comparisons.
- Created an issue label
AI-generated for specifying the issues which have comments that include AI-generated content.
- Created a
seko-metadata.ttl in the datamodel directory for the new ontology schema metadata. Created issue #185 about the description of the ontology in Swedish and English and also a Milestone for issues that are related to the whole ontology.
- Took the current skos:note values (descriptions) via the finto.fi API and added them into the masterdata-table as a separate column in preparation for updates, and translations as well as for checking the spatial and temporal information.
Week 30
- Created a sub-project folder for instrument classification. Uploaded a combination of both MIMO and Leisiö versions to OpenRefine. Added also narrower, broader and instrument links.
- Established a Github Project folder SEKO3 project to better manage the dozens of inssues and the project process. This will be under development for a while.
- continued checking the classification table for missing translations and mismatched notations. Mapped instruments mentioned by Leisio to seko: concepts. For those missing, created an issue with a list of them.
- started documenting the datamodel in a separate descriptive file (see the /datamodel folder) with the structure based on the YSO data model document.
- set the license to the model as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ due to it being work in progress.
- continued working on the classification data. matching the addtional groups listed by Leisiö with the actual marking in the MIMO classification classes. Started finding translations for some of the labels.
- Started looking more closely at funding options. Need to write a realistic project plan, estimates of duration and budget.
- Created a separate list for sources that would be referred in the data with
dct:source. These could be sources for e.g. labels, definitions, spatial and temporal data. Added Finna URIs for printed sources used in the earlier version. Added finna: as a prefix.
- Added more sources for the classification page. Noticed the nice visual browser at https://www.hornbostelsachs.com/.
- Created v0.04 of the datamodel. Added ontology metadata. Created a new Top Concept seko:MediumOfPerformance with skos:narrower pointing to “instrument” and “performer”. Documented deprecation idea in the model. Moved older notes to a separate file from this README.
- Moved the wikidata sparql section from this page to SEKO3 Wiki
- Created a separate
./mapping/ folder for holding mapping files. Mapped SEKO3 concepts with the YKL library classification classes under 78 MUSIC for the 145 instruments or ensembles that were mentioned in the classnames or as entry terms. Added four new concepts to the SEKO3 masterdata table.(jousisoitinsyntetisaattori, sähkökontrabasso, laulaja, jodlaus).
Week 31
- Plan: write project plan and documentation, map funding options, networking, work on 5-10 issues, start implementing the SEKO3 Project section.
- Completed translating all H-S class labels in Finnish (v.001).
- Data is still only in a local Openrefine, but was able to export a RDF file in turtle format.
- Considered properties for “material” of instruments. Searched for vucabularies. Looked at the Musketti instructions and the Europeana Data Model and instrument metadata there.
- Created a folder “vocabulary” for a potential solution for any required lists of items (such as status codes and imstrument materials). Created a demo vocabulary of “materials” with a AI-assistant based on data from Seko definitions.
- There might be a potential to add these into Metadata vocabulary for a more general use?
- Tested using AI for finding language tags for undefined altLabels for an Indian instrument. Worked well and fast (labels were in hi,or,ta,gu,ml,mr,pa,sa). #192. Stored the rules in the
doc/methods -folder.
- Worked on a group of several issues dealing with related animal horn instruments around the Baltic. #118
- Restructured the datamodel examples for the options to present class notations for the Hornbostel-Sachs and YKL classifications. Looked at various instrument classifications and their labeling.
- Mapped some Swedish labels to be used in the datamodel (
doc/skos-vocabulary.md) in case not available in Skosmos.
Week 32 - Networking, planning, documenting
- Added a note on SEKO3-KOKO integration possibility to improve usability in GLAM-sector collections.
- Emall exchange started with MUUSA, the MIMO network, the National Library and the Music Archive. Received the original full MIMO vocabulary files. Registered for the MIMO General Annual Meeting in Riga, 9-10 Sepetember which has a presentation on Vocabularies.
- Studied the Leisiö dissertation in 1983 and made a table of the 120 instrumnent “types” listed, as well as the 120 instruments describe by Minna Hokka website.
- These will be mapped together into a single file, and also mapped to Seko. Their classification is close to H-S so mapping to it would be done, too.
- Probably at least 60 fo these instruments are not in the current Seko.
- Probably these listtings would be added to the SEKO3 Wiki under 03 Research notes - now there are “placeholder” lists only.
- Finding and adding the most used alternative labels would require deeper research into Leisiö’s book which has an extensive index of instrument labels and an organological section, too. Filter to only those that are actually used in publications and collections.
- Contined working on a concise project plan and timetable. Current estimate for a timespan is 24 moonths to complete the different plans and to get quality assurance by music metadata specialists.
- Mapped matching instrument Iconclass classes to Masterdata table with finto.fi url:s.
Week 33 - vacationing…
- Started re-defining the scope of the project to three distinct work packages:
- Seko translation, concept mapping and re-structuring to support interoperability and linked data,
- Classification translation and class mapping to Seko instruments to support discovery and science,
- Extending with the traditional instruments to support the cultural heritage work at museums and archives.
- Images of instruments could be linked from the concepts with a property like schema:image or foaf:depiction or wdt:P18.
- Possible image sources finna.fi or wikimedia commons. However, an easier approach would be just map with seeAlso to pages that include images?
- Worked on LCMPT and LCSH label lists for mappings. LCSH has 884 instrument and ensemble concepts with 1416 entry terms. LCMPT has 903 concepts with 1554 entry terms.
Week 34
- After discussiong with Finto staff, to clearly separate new concpets added within the project and the concepts approved and added by the MUUSA expert group, the identifiers for new concepts were changed to start with the character x , following with three digits. Updates from the origial Aleph-database to Seko at finto.fi are expected in the near future.
Week 35
- To avoid any overlap and mix-ups between the current vocabulary and the planned ontology versions in the finto.fi service, the prefix of the project ontology was changed to fmpo: (or fimpo: depending on feeback). In Masterdata the Seko URN was changed to a separate new column. The concept ids part will be kept equal as much as possible.
Week 37
- Wed-Thu 9.-10. September, MIMO Annual General Meeting in Riga, Latvia. Short presentation on Finnish music vocabularies and the FMPO project plan.
Week 38
- Funding application sent to Koneen säätiö including a more detailed project plan for 24 months (in Finnish)
- Added below a chapter for Networking with three international networks that include of music metadata professionals and more information about metadata in museums and archives.
- Added in the doc folder new listings for music museums and archives, instrument collections and instrument vocabularies, publications.
- Added mapping files/listings from SEKO concepts to YKL library classification, as well as to YSO and KOKO ontologies. Two MAO concepts in the KOKO ontology are neither in YSO nor in Seko (“prayer trumpets” and “bone flutes”). Added SPARQL searches in the Wiki page 04 Tools : SPARQL
Week 39
Week 40