Musical instrument vocabularies and ontologies
- MIMO vocabulary (sv) - https://vocabulary.mimo-international.com/InstrumentsKeywords/sv/
- MIM, Bruxelles - vocabulary project BE-Music thesaurus - https://opentheso.africamuseum.be/opentheso/index.xhtml th5: 6267 Concepts
- I. Herman, “Musicbrainz instrument taxonomy in skos,” Working draft, 2007. [Online]. Available: http://purl.org/ontology/mo/mit/
- LCMPT
- Vocabulary and its Manuals as PDF files - https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeLCMPT/freelcmpt.html
- Browse - https://id.loc.gov/authorities/performanceMediums.html
- Musical Instrument Ontology (ArCo network) v1.0 – https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/musical-instrument
- Smart Musical Instruments Ontology — http://purl.org/ontology/iomust/smi# — Luca Turchet, Paolo Bouquet, Andrea Molinari, George Fazekas. The Smart Musical Instruments Ontology. Journal of Web Semantics, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2021.100687
- https://opentheso.huma-num.fr/?idt=th629 Thésaurus des instruments de musique 11/07/2023 (final): 1700 Concepts; Project: Crem
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- https://opentheso.africamuseum.be/opentheso/?idt=th4 (BE music, 2723 Concepts)
- https://opentheso.africamuseum.be/opentheso/?idt=th5 (Be-MUSIC_thesaurus, 6267 Concepts -ongoing project!)
- DOREMUS project outputs - https://www.doremus.org/?page_id=32
- https://www.nb.no/nbvok/instrumenter/nb/ - Norsk musikkvokabular: Instrumenter og ensembler (371 begrepp, 386 alternative termer)
Publications
- ICOM Music 2026, Edinburgh - presentation abstracts - See Session 7: Thesauri, Sounds, and Systems. Digital Challenges and Ethical Perspectives in Instrument
Collections - Pages 22-24. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GLxxLpgFL0N7RpbRHXspd6FqMSIJlxzh/view
- Bjørnar Bruket, Sveinung Søyland Moen, and Iris Verena Barth: Implementation of Thesauruses in Collection Management (MIMO in Norwegian, Norwegian Museum of Music)
- Anaïs Verhulst Digital Conflicts: Conceptual and Practical Challenges in Revising the Thesaurus of Musical Instrument Names (MIM, Brussels)
- Kathrin Melanie Menzel: Sounding Database – Bridging Organological Records and Performance in the Digital Era
- Ibiyinka Temilola Ayorinde . A Formalised Ontology of Musical Instruments. International Journal of Computer Applications. 176, 24 ( May 2020), 28-32. DOI=10.5120/ijca2020920235
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341413761_A_Formalised_Ontology_of_Musical_Instruments
- Sefki Kolozali, Mathieu Barthet, Gy¨ orgy Fazekas, Mark Sandler Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (2011) KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION ISSUES IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ONTOLOGY DESIGN. 12th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2011) – https://ismir2011.ismir.net/papers/PS3-19.pdf
- DOREMUS: A Graph of Linked Musical Works https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00668-6_1 Corpus ID: 52901368 - Published in International Workshop on the… 8 October 2018
Computer Science, Art
- Doremus Ontoogy - https://data.doremus.org/ontology/ - se M14 Medium of performance
- https://data.doremus.org/vocabularies/
- e.g. https://data.doremus.org/vocabulary/redomi/mop/
- IAML Media of Performances (en, fr, it) https://data.doremus.org/vocabulary/iaml/mop/
- https://isophonics.net/content/musical-instrument-taxonomies.html (2011)
- Proutskova, Polina, Anja Volk, Peyman Heydarian and György Fazekas. “From Music Ontology towards Ethno-Music-Ontology.” International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (2020). DOI:10.5281/ZENODO.4245586
- Lisena, P. et al. (2018). Controlled vocabularies of music metadata. Proceedings of the 19th ISMIR Conference, Paris, France, September 23-27, 2018. https://ismir2018.ircam.fr/doc/pdfs/68_Paper.pdf
- Natural Resources Mapping Based on Indonesia Traditional Instrument Ontology. 2017 International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and System (ICTS)- https://lbeifits.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/35-2017.pdf
- JS Note: describes the development of the Doremus ontology and vocabularies!