Structuring and Navigating Ethnic Music Archives

Web 2.0 represents a new challenge for the ethno-musicology and outlines new modalities of storing and structuring music archives, counting on the active participation and interaction of users that become authors and can directly create, express themselves and communicate. This paper proposes a distributed framework, based on a multi-agent approach, aimed at aggregating ethno-music communities for sharing existing archives and other data, creating new knowledge and improving the access. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.