Jacopo de Berardinis Valentina Carriero Valentina Presutti This ontology describes musical instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties. Given that numerous taxonomies of instruments into groups and families exist (e.g. Hornbostel-Sachs, MIMO, MusicBrainz) and finding common categorisations is an open problem, our module provides an abstraction capable to express arbitrary classifications. Music Instrument Ontology Music Instrument Ontology This ontology describes musical instruments as mediums of performance and their technical properties. Given that numerous taxonomies of instruments into groups and families exist (e.g. Hornbostel-Sachs, MIMO, MusicBrainz) and finding common categorisations is an open problem, our module provides an abstraction capable to express arbitrary classifications. 1.0 "2023-05-19"^^xsd:date "2023-04-12"^^xsd:date mi: https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/music-instrument/ The relation between an instrument realization and its builder. has builder The relation between an instrument realization and the time interval it was built at. was built at time The relation between an instrument realization and the place it was built in. was built in The relation between an instrument, intended as an information object, and the time interval it was invented at. was invented at time The relation between an instrument as an information object and the agent which invented it. was invented by An instrument intended as an information object (e.g. the guitar as an information object), regardless its physical realizations (e.g. the specific guitar at my place). Instrument The part of an instrument. Instrument part The physical realization of an instrument, intended as the information realization (e.g. the specific guitar at my place) and the information object (the guitar as an information object). Instrument realization Voice