[Asis-l] M2K (Music-to-Knowledge) Toolkit Alpha Release 1.0

[J. Stephen Downie]

The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation
Laboratory (IMIRSEL) at the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science (GSLIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is
proud to announce the official release of its M2K (Music-to-Knowledge)
Alpha 1.0 toolkit.

M2K is an open-sourced Java-based framework designed to allow Music
Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) researchers
to rapidly prototype, share and scientifically evaluate their
sophisticated MIR and MDL techniques. M2K builds upon and extends the
D2K/T2K datamining framework developed by the Automated Learning Group
(ALG) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

M2K Alpha 1.0 downloads, installation requirements & instructions, and a
wide range of documentation, can be found via:

http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k

M2K Alpha 1.0 is currently strongest in audio-based approaches to
MIR/MDL tasks. I would like to encourage all MIR/MDL researchers with
interests in symbol-based and metadata-based techniques to join in and
help us extend the functionality of M2K.

We plan to demonstrate M2K at:

2005 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Conference
2005 ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference
2005 Association for Computers and the Humanities/Association for
Literary and Linguistic Computing Conference

We also are planning two M2K workshops:

For European/UK researchers: 15-16 April, Goldsmiths College, London
For North American researchers: May or June, Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The M2K and IMIRSEL projects are supported by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and the National Science Foundation (Grants No. IIS-0340597
and No. IIS-0327371).

Cheers,
J. Stephen Downie
Project Principal Investigator

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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Center Affliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox](217) 351-5037 [Voicemail] (217) 265-5018
M2K Project Home: http://music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k