CCRMA OVERVIEW - CCRMA - Stanford University

When writing online documents, it is useful to draw upon a collection of links to related materials, so
that the document will be well connected on the Web. To build such a collection, the beginnings of an
online, interlinked "knowledge base" in the field of digital signal processing applied to music and audio
is under development. The current state can be seen via the online index
"JOS Global Index" 6
The Global Index was initially generated automatically as a list of links to all HTML pages under the
JOS Home Page. 7 As such, it functions as a kind of hypertext glossary for web-resident content in signal
processing applied to music and audio, particularly for content resident at CCRMA.
A suitable subset of links from the JOS Global Index have been contributed to the Open Dictionary 8 ,
which provides a means for researchers and educators in related fields to organize their respective links
into one large "meta-encyclopedia".
In general, the best link targets tend to be "Concept Home Pages" (CHP) — Web destinations devoted a
single topic. Like any good "hub" on the Web, a CHP attempts to efficiently route all types of visitors to
all types of content on the given topic. The topic is covered exhaustively in a top-down way, leveraging
links to other CHPs as much as possible. The Digital Audio Resampling Home Page 9 is a prototype
CHP devoted to sampling-rate conversion. It presently consists of
• A link to a general definition and introduction
• Links to available open-source software
• An in-depth tutorial
• Links to related websites
Concept home pages are under development for other topics integral to CCRMA teaching and research.
6 http://www-ccrma.st anford.edu/~jos/jospubs.html
'http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/
8 http://www. opendict.org
9 http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/"jos/resample/
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