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Chapter X
DART:
A Framework for
Distributed Audio Analysis and
Music Information Retrieval
Eddie Al-Shakarchi
Cardiff University, UK
Ian Taylor
Cardiff University, UK
Stephen David Beck
Louisiana State University, USA
aBstract
This chapter introduces the DART (Distributed Audio Retrieval using Triana) project as a framework
for facilitating the distributed processing and analysis of audio and Music Information Retrieval. The
chapter begins by discussing the background and history of Grid and P2P technologies, the Triana
framework, the current tools already developed for audio-rate signal processing, and also gives a de-
scription of how Triana is employing a decentralized P2P framework to support MIR applications. A
music recommendation system is proposed to demonstrate the DART framework, and the chapter also
documents the DART team's progress towards the creation of a working system. The authors hope that
introducing the DART system to the MIR community will not only inform them of a research tool that
will benefit the entire field of MIR, but also establish DART as an important tool for the rest of the audio
and research communities.
IntroductIon
toolkits, such as Globus (http://www.globus.
org/) providing the underlying mechanisms for
executing and managing jobs and data, to using
service oriented architectures (SOAs) in the form
of Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
(Foster, Kesselman, Nick, Tuecke, 2002) that
capitalises on Web Services standards set out
Over the past five years, there have been sig-
nificant advancements made in the field of dis-
tributed systems technologies with applications
being deployed on an Internet scale. On the one
hand, Grid computing has evolved from core
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