@CONFERENCE\{IMM2006-05187, author = "F. Deli\`{e}ge and T. B. Pedersen", title = "Music Warehouses: Challenges for the Next Generation of Music Search", year = "2006", month = "dec", pages = "95-105", booktitle = "Proc. of the 1st Int. Workshop on Learning the Semantics of Audio Signals, {LSAS,} Athens, Greece", volume = "", series = "", editor = "Pedro Cano, Andreas Nurnberger, Sebast Stober, George Tzanetakis", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5187-full.html", abstract = "Music Information Retrieval has received increasing attention from both the industrial and the research communities in recent years. Many audio extraction techniques providing content-based music information have been developed, sparking the need for intelligent storage and retrieval facilities. This paper proposes to satisfy this need by extending technology from business-oriented data warehouses to so-called music warehouses that integrate a large variety of music-related information, including both low-level features and high-level musical information. Music warehouses thus help to close the “semantic gap” by supporting integrated querying of these two kinds of music data. This paper presents a number of new challenges for the database community that must be taken up to meet the particular demands of music warehouses.", isbn_issn = "ISBN: 3980497423" }