All work has been carried out following management procedures that were established at the beginning of the project. Organization and coordination of the actions amongst the consortium has been done effectively, including a Data Management Plan and ethical guidelines for all experiments requiring human participants.
During its first year, the TROMPA project has focused on defining its pilot scenarios for music scholars, orchestras, instruments players, singers and music enthusiasts (WP2). The TROMPA team has worked on the elicitation and prioritisation of the requirements for target user groups and use cases. Application mockups were developed based on the requirements elicited and tested with users of each target corresponding user group.
We worked on specifications in terms of automatic music processing technologies and human annotations and crowdsourcing technologies, including developing data-driven algorithms for automatic music description (in terms of rhythm, melody, emotion, etc) and processing (including singing synthesis and source separation). We investigated current state-of-the-art technologies that are relevant in the scope of the project defined pilots, we adapted them to TROMPA needs and proposed novel approaches and contributions to the state of the art. We established mechanisms to involve the crowd for the description and quality validation of multimodal music information and we developed models for the representation of relevant properties of crowd contributors, the design of incentivisation mechanisms for crowd contributors, the design and development of hybrid workflows combining the crowd automatic processing and the design of the building blocks of a framework for the continuous evaluation and improvement of music processing technologies.
Moreover we developed the Data Infrastructure (WP5) that will be used by all partners to store or reference data. The Data Infrastructure consists of the Contributor Environment (CE), which is essentially a web API that will expose the entirety of TROMPA content and functionalities and a collection of four components, each offering functionalities to consume and enrich the TROMPA dataset: score edition component, TROMPA Processing Library, Annotation Tool and Music Performance Assessment.
The work under WP6 has focused on concretizing and integrating insights and achievements from WP2 into user-facing pilots. In the first year, we have reached out first audiences in order to gather and validate requirements and carry out user-centered design studies.
Finally, there has been a continuous programme of Dissemination activities during the first year, involving all project partners. In terms of academic dissemination there have been 15 academic publications, 5 publicly accessible collections of datasets and/or source code, 5 invited talks, 10 contributions with academic service, 19 professional outreach events and activities and 7 dissemination activities aimed at the general audience.
