Populating the Smart Musical Instruments Ontology with Data

Abstract

One of the main instances of Musical Things within the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT) paradigm is the emerging family of Smart Musical Instruments (SMIs). This is a category of musical instruments encompassing sensors, actuators, embedded intelligence, and wireless connectivity to local networks and to the Internet. Recently, an ontology to represent this domain has been proposed, the Smart Musical Instruments Ontology. However, a database gathering SMIs instances was missing. Such a database would be useful to gather and organize information about this family of IoMusT devices which is predicted to become more widespread in the future, in both academic and industrial contexts. In this paper, we present a linked data service exposing metadata about SMIs structured according to the Smart Musical Instruments Ontology, as well as a Web application for its extension and retrieval. We first survey the existing instances of SMIs as well as the SMIs Ontology. We then outline use cases and potential applications utilizing the developed Web-based service, showing how to retrieve detailed information using metadata describing the SMIs domain.